Comment on Why should I use rust (as a Go enthusiast)?

darcy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• firelizzard@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d have to be living under a particularly large rock to be unaware of that. “It’s memory safe” isn’t that big of a deal to me. Even building concurrent systems, memory safety has never been a significant issue for me with Go.

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  • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Go is memory safe due to its garbage collection. Which adds a decent overhead generally.

    Rusts memory safety is enforced at compile time and therefore has zero cost at runtime.

    For a system level language this can be really important.

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    • firelizzard@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In my book, “memory safety” also means avoiding data races. AFAIK Rust prevents most or all races by enforcing ownership and lifetime of pointers.

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  • darcy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    i think go is also considered memory safe due to the garbage collector

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