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> Rust is like the Perl of system programming.

So not true. I'm hardly a Rust aficionado, but Rust is definitely a spiritual successor to C++, while Go is more of a successor to Java.



> while Go is more of a successor to Java.

In what sense?


They're both blub languages, designed to be simple and boring but with lots of grafted-on cruft from the designers not realizing that complexity is a waterbed.


garbage collected, the usecases I see it, generally being used to write network services


don't forget generics added a decade after language inception in both cases


Please do not compare rust to C++, that is an insult to C++


In my experience, C++ is by far the most common language Rust is compared to. Rust will never stop being compared to C++.


Seriously? I love C++ and barely use Rust, but they both seem like pretty good languages to me.




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