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0 pointsarcticbull5y ago0 comments

Rust and Go are contemporaries. Rust started in 2006 at Mozilla, and the first Go public release from Google was in 2009, meaning it probably started at the same time.

Except of course all the Plan 9 garbage (like Go's hand-rolled assembler) brought in to underpin Go from the 80s ;)

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gpm5y ago

Rust is also basically just LLVM in terms of optimization, which looks like it had it's initial release in 2003.

entha_saava5y ago

> Except of course all the Plan 9 garbage (like Go's hand-rolled assembler) brought in to underpin Go from the 80s

This is unfair criticism. If Go had used LLVM, it would affect its selling point (fast compile times) and authors knew the plan 9 toolchain well.

Go the language feels like it is from 80s. But its toolchain is not at all bad. LLVM monoculture is the last thing one would want. Obligatory reminder that LLVM has its flaws too..

blablabla1235y ago

Also when this LLVM stuff doesn't work, it's a major pain to troubleshoot because all this is a complexity monster. Go and its Plan 9 heritage is more like 80s retro future and things like cross-compiling are super easy

arcticbullOP5y ago

In my opinion, compile times are irrelevant. Developers can always get faster or larger machines if they need them. What matters is how the final product performs on customer machines. Performance and memory usage of the final product, plus your ability as an engineering team to avoid costly and difficult mistakes are basically the only thing that matters.

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