alt Hacker NewsRust is better. It just is. Go is not bad. But as a long time go advocate, the hurdle for my teams using rust is gone, and thus everything is now rust.
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Personally, Rust or Typescript both happen to be better than Go for me. TypeScript has better type-safety and tooling for user-facing apps, and Rust has better type-safety and tooling for algorithmic stuff or stuff that needs to run fast.
I guess the difference in compile times doesn't matter enough?
idk. In my experience the build/compile experience has been far worse esp for fast iterating. Even concurrency models did not seem as intuitive as Go's. Im no systems expert - have deployed practical and performant distributed systems though.
Zig seems to have more closely aligned with what Go devs prefer.
Ignoring performance for the moment (because most situations are bottlenecked on something else), why is rust better?
I agree, but this doesn't justify anything. Saying rust is better because it "just is" won't convince anyone. I'd like to know why you think it's better.
Personally I find Rust a lot harder to read than Go.
If you're going to have an agent write most of your code readability is very important.