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.
I think the reason you are getting downvoted is that Go is not at all like your characterization of Java and .NET. In fact Go was developed as a reaction to some of those problems and it’s very well suited for developing things like CLI programs on Linux. Can you imagine tools like
fzf,resticorrclonewritten in Java?Also, in many ways Go is arguably closer to the spirit of C (despite the GC). A small, pragmatic language that you can keep in your head, little magic, the code does what it says. Rust is more akin to the C++ kitchen sink approach. Neither is inherently better than the other though and I am glad that we have several decent options with different trade-offs for different use cases.