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by pjmlp 375 days ago
Native AOT is quite good enough nowadays, I think there were other politics at play.

Azure team has no issues using AI to convert from C++ to Rust, see RustNation UK 2025 talks.

Also they mention the reason being a port not a rewrite, yet they had anyway to rewrite the whole AST datastructures due to the weaker typesystem in Go.

Finally, the WebAssembly tooling to support Blazor is much more mature than what Go has.