For me, it’s the instability in Rust that makes it less attractive than go. By instability I mean that the language itself and the whole ecosystem around it seems to be in a constant flux. If you contribute a PR today you’ll get a review tomorrow saying that “you can now use this and that feature from the latest nightly to save 3 lines of code”, continuing like that for another two weeks before you finally give up.
Go has been the paragon of stability and professionalism since its first release, also due to the fact that it was a specific goal for the language. Additions are slow and few, often thought over and debated for months (or years) to find the simplest, most optimal solution. What’s even more remarkable, they have managed to transport this mindset into the larger ecosystem, which now practices the same values of consistently and quality.
So for me, it feels like the Rust community spends a lot of effort on keeping up with the language, the Go community spends that time getting things done, which is what I mostly go for these days.
For me, it’s the instability in Rust that makes it less attractive than go. By instability I mean that the language itself and the whole ecosystem around it seems to be in a constant flux. If you contribute a PR today you’ll get a review tomorrow saying that “you can now use this and that feature from the latest nightly to save 3 lines of code”, continuing like that for another two weeks before you finally give up.
Go has been the paragon of stability and professionalism since its first release, also due to the fact that it was a specific goal for the language. Additions are slow and few, often thought over and debated for months (or years) to find the simplest, most optimal solution. What’s even more remarkable, they have managed to transport this mindset into the larger ecosystem, which now practices the same values of consistently and quality.
So for me, it feels like the Rust community spends a lot of effort on keeping up with the language, the Go community spends that time getting things done, which is what I mostly go for these days.