Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?

Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 11 04:37:18 PDT 2015


On 10/06/2015 12:38, "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> I think Rust has an advantage over Go in the name Mozilla alone, they
> are more idealistic than Google.

Agreed. In concrete terms, Mozilla is a non-profit, whereas Google is 
not. Google can easily drop (or reduce) support for Go if it doesn't 
serve whatever business goal they want. Or alternatively they might not 
be interested in evolving Go (or Go's toolchain) in directions that are 
useful for other people, but have little value for their business or 
technical goals.

Mozilla may see in their heart the will to develop a language such as 
Rust in part for the benefit of the programming community in general. 
Even if they don't, and they remain mainly concerned with Servo/browser 
development, if Rust's core goals are of developing large-scale 
programs, with strong static checking / verification (safeness), and 
being able to write highly optimized/fast programs - then that is 
already a project vision that can make the language highly successful.

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