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0 pointsthrowaway8943454y ago0 comments

This jives very well with my experience. I like writing Rust, but I do so well aware that I could write the same thing in Go and still have quite a lot of time left-over for debugging issues.

I can also get user feedback sooner and thus pivot my implementation more quickly, which is a more subtle angle that is so rarely broached in these kinds of conversations.

The places where I think the gap between Go and Rust is the smallest (due to Rust's type system) are things like compilers where you have a lot of algebraic data types to model--Rust's enums + pattern matching are great here.

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tptacek4y ago

I always miss match and options (I could go either way on results, which tend to devolve into a shouting match between my modules with the type system badly refereeing). But my general experience is, I switch from writing in Rust to Go, and I immediately notice how much more quickly I'm getting code into the editor. It's pretty hard to miss the difference.

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