I've never really understood why the lack of Result/Option types are somehow spun as a good thing. Other things about Rust can be complex and can require some diligence to learn, but Result/Option types over golang's way of handling the same thing? Seriously? That's the argument for golang?
I don’t think that’s the argument for Go. It’s a decision that Go developers accept as a trade off for other things that are nice about Go.
I haven’t learned Rust yet, maybe one day I will, but it looks a lot more complex to me, and it’s hard to see how the extra complexity will help me write better web servers.
It’s OK for Rust and Go to solve different problems with different trade offs.
Totally agree with you. And I totally get why some people would prefer golang.
Don't like how some constantly feel the need to compare golang and Rust (two very different languages), and how some feel like the comparison is always favorable to golang. Like you said -- there are tradeoffs. golang folks seems to have a problem acknowledging that Rust made a few good decisions too, like Result and Option types, mostly because they haven't ever used them.
It's hard for me to imagine someone using them (golang has generics now, so get ready!) and not liking them. Especially golang. It's just so weird to hear that someone describe one of the warts of golang as actually beautiful, instead of, as you say, a tradeoff.
Rust has a certain amount of friction. It takes some work to learn well enough to feel productive. I don't know if it's all that bad. But, yes, it is a clear tradeoff for people who mostly work in domains in which golang works well enough to really pretty great, like writing web servers.
Ok. Ironically, your comment came across to me as a comparison, but I guess we were both reacting to the same sense, that it’s not a race.
In fact, I’d really love to learn Rust - GC always feels like a nasty hack to me - but my current use case and time constraints mean that I won’t get to use what I learn, and will quickly forget, so it’s just a waste of time for me at the moment.
