Rust vs Go? Which should you choose in 2024

1. rust

   1 2,856 104,879 10.0 Rust

   Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

   

   Rust is a high-level programming language with a strong focus on memory safety created by Graydon Hoare, a former Mozilla employee as a personal project in 2006. Memory-safe languages like Rust have been recommended by the United States Department.

2. InfluxDB

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3. go

   2 2,276 128,800 10.0 Go

   The Go programming language

   

   Go is an open-source programming language created at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson in 2009. It's statically typed and similar to C++ in syntax. In an interview, Rob Pike said Go was created because of the difficulty associated with concurrency operations in C++ at the time.

4. docker

   3 204 532 0.0 Go

   Discontinued Docker - the open-source application container engine (by microsoft)

   

   Go was created at Google, and it has substantial corporate support and adoption. Major companies like Google, Uber and Dropbox rely on Go for many of their backend services. Docker, a leading containerization technology was built mainly in Go.

5. tokio

   4 222 28,973 9.5 Rust

   A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...

   

   In the code above, the execute_task function simulates a task that takes some time to complete. The Rust Tokio runtime manages the main function's execution without blocking the thread, allowing other asynchronous tasks to proceed concurrently. The main function then waits for the task to finish before printing a completion message.

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