I'm interested in your feedback regarding my question,In my case, I'm planning to learn Rust, but I'm really struggling between going for Go or Rust.
Thanks !
Ask HN: Is it worth investing in learning Rust?
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Re: Ask HN: Is it worth investing in learning Rust?
#2Learn both, Rust is a great general purpose language that can be used to build almost anything. Go is a great general purpose language that can build a nice set of things.
If you need to, you can even use Rust to build firmware, boot loaders, kernel drivers, user mode drivers and operating systems. Basically anything that you want to run fast and have less errors Rust would be a pretty good choice to use, especially when speed, performance and app reliability is a high requirement.
I use Rust at work to help reduce error prone programs and speed up capabilities of our distributed apps (calculations and pre-processing of data from systems) that naturally run slow using their original language implementation. I use Go for writing our blazing fast web applications that provide an fast interface to our apps for our internal users.
Re: Ask HN: Is it worth investing in learning Rust?
#3Learn both, Rust is a great general purpose language that can be used to build almost anything. Go is a great general purpose language that can build a nice set of things. If you need to, you can even use Rust to build firmware, boot loaders, kernel drivers, user mode drivers and operating systems. Basically anything that you want to run fast and have less errors Rust would be a pretty good choice to use, especially…
Yes, on the performance side of things, Rust is blazing fast, but the learning curve is hard though, that's why I'm wondering if it's really beneficial for me as a programmer especially in the long run, since it's not used widely in the moment.
Re: Ask HN: Is it worth investing in learning Rust?
#4If this is a career thing, it's usually better to be an expert in one language than an amateur in a dozen of them. Try them both, proceed with the one you like best, because in the end, you will be judged by what you produce with it.
No matter how much nerd-cred a language has, it is hard to be productive with a language that you hate.
edit: FWIW, we are commenting on a site by a billionaire who seeded his fortune by writing a program in LISP back when almost everyone else thought that LISP was long-dead and buried.
Re: Ask HN: Is it worth investing in learning Rust?
#5If you are a C++ programmer, learn rust.
If you are a C or other programmer, learn go.
If you are doing this for job prospects, pick go.
Re: Ask HN: Is it worth investing in learning Rust?
#6learn both until you know which one is your favorite.
Re: Ask HN: Is it worth investing in learning Rust?
#7yes
Re: Ask HN: Is it worth investing in learning Rust?
#8If this is a career thing, it's usually better to be an expert in one language than an amateur in a dozen of them. Try them both, proceed with the one you like best, because in the end, you will be judged by what you produce with it. No matter how much nerd-cred a language has, it is hard to be productive with a language that you hate. edit: FWIW, we are commenting on a site by a billionaire who seeded his fortune by…
Paul Graham is a billionaire?
Re: Ask HN: Is it worth investing in learning Rust?
#9learn both until you know which one is your favorite.
I think learning both languages to figure out what's my favorite is a bit hard to do, I don't want to actually learn some basics then switch to another language to explore.
Re: Ask HN: Is it worth investing in learning Rust?
#10If you are a C++ programmer, learn rust. If you are a C or other programmer, learn go. If you are doing this for job prospects, pick go.
Can you explain please why is that ? btw I'm coming from a JS/Node background, but I worked with C and C++ before (mainly school projects, nothing serious).