#randomQuestionsOfTheDay Rust or Go? And why Go?

(#kp4v2wa) @eaplmx Go. For the following reasons: - Go has a simple and easy learning curve with the right balance of "languages" features - Go is a statically compiled language with good performace - Go has a great standard library - Go has great tooling - Go's packaging (whilst some argue against) is actually pretty good - Go has first-class concurrency - Go's concurrency model (CSP) lets you model concurrent programs linearly making concurrent programs easier to read - Go has a focus on readability - Go compiles insanely fast (if you avoid using CGO) - Go doesn't support silly things like classes which is fucking great! - Go supports actual good reuse with interfaces and interface types - Go supports functional programming (yes it does!) - Go is awesome!

(#kp4v2wa) PS: I quite like these random #randomQuestionsOfTheDay posts of yours 😅

(#kp4v2wa) @eaplmx no opinion, because I know neither

(#kp4v2wa) @prologic it's interesting. I'd say that with a couple exceptions this list applies to scala too and it's why I like that ecosystem so much

(#kp4v2wa) (scala does not compile insanely fast, though the whole community recognizes this and is trying to fix it. also the built-in concurrency primitives aren't the greatest right now but there are exceptional libraries that do it well)

(#kp4v2wa) @abucci Sadly for me I _could_ never (and still can't) get into more pure functional languages. I struggled with Haskell in my under-grad some ions ago and well I like and enjoy some aspects of functional programming, just not all of it. Also the JVM irks me 😅

(#kp4v2wa) @prologic I guess I need to do something useful on Go since I have only learned the basics and I didn't reach all this awesome you mentioned. Rust was too much for me at this stage, but it's the _hot language_ right now, so I always have the doubt if it's something sensible to learn next year.

(#kp4v2wa) @prologic hehe 😁

(#kp4v2wa) @eaplmx Don't learn the **hot** 🔥 🥵, Learn the practical thing 🤗 🤣