If Rust was already matured by the time Docker was rewriten from Python, and Kubernetes from Java, I bet that Go wouldn't have been the lucky candidate.
Rust is a lot of overhead when go is "good enough" for 99% of what needs to get done. That doesn't mean go is good for everything. I would still rather write Rust than C or C++ or bunch of other languages. Look at a project like Pingora, from cloud flair. Perfect Rust project, bad Go project. Rust is in the kernel, rust is what im looking at for a USB driver. I would not shove go in either of these places.
Go could have been like Modula-3, D or C#, instead they decided to revamp Oberon and Limbo, the version 1.0 of those languages from the 1990's, not what was latter done from their learnings, e.g. Active Oberon.
Now thanks to Docker and Kubernetes adoption success, we're stuck with it.
At least now generics are supported, unless one needs gccgo, maybe in 10 years we get Pascal enumerations.
Go is stone cold simple to pick up. ITs simple to reason about. I can decompose a project and spoon feed it to a JR engineer and they can get through it.
Rust is none of those things.
Its great for low level stuff, it is in the kernel right next to C and go will NEVER be there. Why, because that is what rust is good at.
> At least now generics are supported, unless one needs gccgo, maybe in 10 years we get Pascal enumerations.
Again I like rust. Crates being colored (as in functions), the shitty compile and tests times... these are things that are holding back rusts adoption in more places... None of this stuff is on the road map to get fixed, it's quite the glass house you have.
Go is going to replace a fair bit of python/ruby in the next few years... Is it going to be rust or zig that eats into c/c++? If the rust community keeps on the way it has been, zig will eat all the core apps we depend on.
Looking forward for AI research in Go taking over the world.
Zig is a Modula-2 (1978), with C like syntax, with added compile time, still has use-after-free, and a community that seems ideologically against binary libraries.
Good luck making it relevant, I am not buying into Bun ever taking over node.
