Do Rust devs hate Go devs?

Earlier this week, a 2-year old post titled I want off Mr. Golang’s wild ride by @fasterthanlime made the news rounds again. This post raises a bunch of concerns on the Go language and is posted from the perspective of someone who prefers Rust. And, just yesterday, I noticed a comment on Twitter by @FiloSottile that, paraphrased, reads “Why is there so much hatred towards Go, especially from Rust developers?”.

I wish I could answer this question with a “no, there isn’t”, but that would be a lie: in any large community, there will certainly be hateful people/opinions. If you have encountered such flamebait, I’m sorry, and I’m not here to defend it. What I’m here to do is look at the possible truth behind the claim that Rust developers dislike Go, and I wanted to elaborate on this based on my personal experience.

April 29, 2022 · Tags: go, opinion, rust
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Rust vs. Go

There is no good answer to this question: people tend to put Go and Rust in the same bucket because they were released at around the same time, because Rust’s release felt like a response to Go’s, and because they are marketed to similar audiences. They are, however, vastly different. So let’s give in and compare them anyway.

July 13, 2018 · Tags: featured, go, programming, rust, sandboxfs
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A look at Go from a newbie's perspective

I confess I am late to the game: the Go programming language came out in 2009 and I had not had the chance to go all in for a real project until two weeks ago. Here is a summary of my experience. Spoiler alert: I’m truly pleased.

The project

What I set out to build is a read-only caching file system to try to solve the problems I presented in my previous analysis of large builds on SSHFS. The reasons I chose Go are simple: I had to write a low-level system component and, in theory, Go excels at this; I did not want to use plain C; Go had the necessary bindings (for FUSE and SQLite); and, heck, I just wanted to try it out!

March 22, 2016 · Tags: featured, go, software
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