Rust vs Go: A Hands-On Comparison

• node-to-rust

  1 1,239 10.0 Rust

  Discontinued [Moved to: https://github.com/jsoverson/node-to-rust] (by vinodotdev)

https://github.com/vinodotdev/node-to-rust/releases/download...

The thing that stood out the most to me while learning these was their focus on composition over inheritance. Even though I really like C-based languages, I have never liked the inheritance push from the 90s-2000s.

I really like some of the things in Go, but overall I felt I just didn't need it. .NET, Java, etc are more mature with comparable or better capabilities across the board. It's just hard for me to justify Go outside of stylistic preference.

I really, really like Rust but ever since learning it almost 2 years ago, I still have not found a single use case for it. It's partially the maturity of the competition, but it's also that even in HPC, ML/DL, etc I've done just fine with the "legacy" stack.

I would love to hear from people what their thoughts are on this. What are some scenarios where you see these languages thriving? What makes you want to use them? What's the best use case? Would love to evolve my thinking.

• FrameworkBenchmarks

  366 7,384 9.8 Java

  Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project

  

In terms of RPS, this web service is more-or-less the fortunes benchmark in the techempower benchmarks, once the data hits the cache: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21

Or, at least, they would be after applying optimizations to them.

In short, both of these would serve more rps than you will likely ever need on even the lowest end virtual machines. The underlying API provider will probably cut you off from querying them before you run out of RPS.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• good

  1 29 10.0 Go

  The Good Programming Language (by goodlang)

  

• kubernetes

  657 106,778 10.0 Go

  Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

  

• go

  2,068 119,564 10.0 Go

  The Go programming language

  

• Graal

  156 19,788 10.0 Java

  GraalVM compiles Java applications into native executables that start instantly, scale fast, and use fewer compute resources 🚀

  

> to be compiled to a single executable is a strength that Java does not have

I think this is very outdated claim: https://www.graalvm.org/

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