Why I love Rust
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#2I want to spend at least 3-4 months learning a new language but just can't figure out if I should spent time learning Rust or Go. I am thinking more of it from a career perspective than interest.
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#3I want to spend at least 3-4 months learning a new language but just can't figure out if I should spent time learning Rust or Go. I am thinking more of it from a career perspective than interest.
While I'm bullish on Rust being a big language in the next few years, there's not much production use yet -- it's still pretty immature from a production tooling point of view.
Go, on the other hand, has a lot of adoption. So if you're looking for a language to use on the job today, it's gonna be Go.
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#4I want to spend at least 3-4 months learning a new language but just can't figure out if I should spent time learning Rust or Go. I am thinking more of it from a career perspective than interest.
From a career perspective, Go is currently the language you'd want to learn. Here's my list of some of the largest companies from a few months ago, excluding a bunch of Chinese ones I haven't heard of (of which there are many, considering that China is most likely Go's largest adopter (http://herman.asia/why-is-go-popular-in-china)).
Walmart, Apple, Facebook, eBay, Intel, Google, Mozilla, IBM, Microsoft, DigitalOcean, Zynga, Yahoo, BBC, VMware, Uber, GitHub, Getty Images, Twitter, Stack Exchange, Docker, SpaceX, Baidu, Qiniu, Imgur, CloudFlare, Bitbucket, Dell, Twitch, Dailymotion, bitly, Cisco, Verizon, Dropbox, Adobe, New York Times, HP, Canonical, Cloud Foundry, 99designs, BuySellAds, CoreOS, MongoDB, Basecamp, Rackspace, Booking, MalwareBytes, Kingsoft, Iron.io, OpenShift, Heroku, Square, Spring, Tumblr, VMWare, Symantec, Comcast, CBS, SendGrid, Digitally Imported, Pivotal, Couchbase, Koding, Shopify, Shutterfly, MaxCDN, Linden Lab, SolarWinds, IMVU, EMC, Teradata, and I'm sure many more which I'm unaware of, are all using Go to some capacity.
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#5Another great piece of content from Julia Evans :)
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#6I want to spend at least 3-4 months learning a new language but just can't figure out if I should spent time learning Rust or Go. I am thinking more of it from a career perspective than interest.
Learning a single tool is a small value proposition to an employer. Showing an employer that you can learn a tool quickly and effectively is a large value proposition. Either one would do that.
Pick the one you enjoy most.
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#7I want to spend at least 3-4 months learning a new language but just can't figure out if I should spent time learning Rust or Go. I am thinking more of it from a career perspective than interest.
I think you should learn Rust, because there are actually things there that you can't learn about in other languages.
1. How to manually manage memory more safely with aid from a borrow checker. 2. If you don't already have experience with an ML/Haskell descent language, it will teach you about more powerful static type systems. 3. General low-level programming concepts that you wouldn't know without experience in C/C++.
Whereas Go doesn't really have much to teach you. The community says it themselves: Go is a very simple language. Even if you needed to learn it for a job, onboarding new workers onto a Go project is really easy. So I don't think you'd add much to your resume just by tacking Go onto the list of languages you know. What Go can teach you about:
1) CSP - Communicating Sequential Processes. I believe this is the concurrency model behind goroutines and channels. But you can learn about CSP in other languages.
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#8I want to spend at least 3-4 months learning a new language but just can't figure out if I should spent time learning Rust or Go. I am thinking more of it from a career perspective than interest.
Career wise, you should pick up popular languages, Java/C#/Python/Ruby/JavaScript.
Between Go and Rust, I think you should pick Go because there are a significant number of developers from Python/Ruby/JavaScript enjoying programming Go. Many startups start using Go[1] and couple of universities use Go in their classes[2]. Rust targets system development primarily occupied by C/C++ developers. Many still prefer C++ and I rarely see Rust job.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10822019
[2] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Courses
Edit: I may be biased since I enjoy programming in Go.
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#9I want to spend at least 3-4 months learning a new language but just can't figure out if I should spent time learning Rust or Go. I am thinking more of it from a career perspective than interest.
Career wise, you should pick up popular languages, Java/C#/Python/Ruby/JavaScript. Between Go and Rust, I think you should pick Go because there are a significant number of developers from Python/Ruby/JavaScript enjoying programming Go. Many startups start using Go[1] and couple of universities use Go in their classes[2]. Rust targets system development primarily occupied by C/C++ developers. Many still prefer C++ an…
The TIOBE Index for January, 2016 has Java at number one. Rust is at 47 and Go is outside the top 50:
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Career wise, you should pick up popular languages, Java/C#/Python/Ruby/JavaScript. Between Go and Rust, I think you should pick Go because there are a significant number of developers from Python/Ruby/JavaScript enjoying programming Go. Many startups start using Go[1] and couple of universities use Go in their classes[2]. Rust targets system development primarily occupied by C/C++ developers. Many still prefer C++ an…
The TIOBE Index for January, 2016 has Java at number one. Rust is at 47 and Go is outside the top 50: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/
Go is probably a difficult term for TIOBE to get it right.