The difference between Go and Rust

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  • countwords

    Discontinued Playing with counting word frequencies (and performance) in various languages.

  • And yet Go was faster than Rust in a simple app that count words: https://benhoyt.com/writings/count-words/

  • go

    The Go programming language

  • It's well known that there is a top notch crypto library for Go: https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/crypto Google has some experts working on that since the beginning of Go.

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  • OpenSSL

    TLS/SSL and crypto library

  • And yet they all do https://github.com/openssl/openssl/tree/1c0eede9827b0962f1d752fa4ab5d436fa039da4/crypto/aes/asm

  • TinyGo

    Go compiler for small places. Microcontrollers, WebAssembly (WASM/WASI), and command-line tools. Based on LLVM.

  • zerosharp

    Demo of the potential of C# for systems programming with the .NET native ahead-of-time compilation technology.

  • Want to see how low C# can go ? Here are some examples. C# bare metal , 8KB C# game, C# with go like tooling

  • bflat

    C# as you know it but with Go-inspired tooling (small, selfcontained, and native executables)

  • Want to see how low C# can go ? Here are some examples. C# bare metal , 8KB C# game, C# with go like tooling

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