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Rust vs Go in 2023 (programming.dev)

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Rust vs Go in 2023

Which is better, Rust or Go? Go or Rust? Which language should you choose for your next project in 2023, and why? How do the two compare in areas like performance, simplicity, safety, features, scale, and concurrency? What do they have in common, and where do they fundamentally differ? Let’s find out, in this friendly and even-handed comparison of Rust and Golang.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

All languages have their place and there's no simple "better" or "worse" between any of them.

Go's great for quickly and efficiently writing web services and other general programs. It's clean, simple and quick to learn. Executables are pretty fast and it's safe.

Rust's aimed more at systems level programming like operating systems etc. but it's also suitable for general programs. It's complex and hard to learn but powerful according to its advocates. Like Go, executables are fast and it's safe.