Rust versus Go is a controversial topic that pops up from time. In this post, we will compare both languages in the context of web development by writing a small web service which shows weather data in both languages.

Oh no, not another ‘Is Rust better than Go?’ article. Seriously, haven’t we all had our fill of these comparisons by now? But before you sigh in exasperation, hear us out!

  • BatmanAoD
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    1 year ago

    Its already the case the language and ecosystem is so much in flux that code that’s been written today has been made obsolete by a language feature in the latest nightly build.

    This is just…not actually true, depending on what you mean by “obsolete”. Rust has been stable since 2015; almost all code written for version 1.0 still compiles today.

    Rust is risking of going the C++ way: have some many freatures bolted on that even as an experienced developer, you can checkout a random project on Github and discover a new language feature.

    This is more subjective, but most of the current feature-stabilization work in Rust is not “bolting on” completely new functionality, but rather focused on reducing places in the language where different features are currently incompatible. This blog post is a bit old, but expresses what I mean: https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2022/09/22/rust-2024-the-year-of-everywhere/