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I Tried Every Hot Programming Language

Kuvam Bhardwaj on December 13, 2024

In this post, I'll make an attempt to compare GoLang, Zig, and Rust. And why Rust wins this comparison (for me). Story Time! I wrote 3 ...
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Daniel Rodríguez Rivero

Not sure bro, I feel your list is missing Gleam

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Kuvam Bhardwaj

How was your experience with it? I’ve been procrastinating on trying it…

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Milnor

Enjoyed your article! It was refreshing that you stated your favorite in the second sentence, rather than telling the reader they had to read everything to find out.

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Kuvam Bhardwaj

Glad that you liked it!

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ahsandev2019

I stopped learning rust after 1 month fcking learn haha 😂😂😂 i think gokag is enough for me

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Kuvam Bhardwaj

Golang is enough for most people hahaha

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Mohammad Jawad (Kasir) Barati

For me only JS + Python. Golang is still in the back of my mind, but never got a chance to give it a serious try though.

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Kuvam Bhardwaj

Why not give it a try this weekend?

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Aaron Smith

Go is great until you want to do metaprogramming (templates) - and then you're forced to copy paste. Overall, it's a pretty decent language, it's just clunky in this regard.

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plutonium239

What do you mean by templates here? Go's templating engine is really strong afaik, it is the base of the hugo static site generator. Hugo is the best right now unless you want to make everything in html/css/js, and it's miles better than jekyll (the previous "standard").

Do you mean something completely different?

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Albanesi, Roberto Javier

Loved the article!
I started learning a bit of Zig yesterday, and I'm planning to give it s try to Rust in the future.

Do you have any suggestions on learning material?

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