Proper Community Engagement

Posted Sep 2, 2024 9:47 UTC (Mon) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Proper Community Engagement by rc00
Parent article: Rust-for-Linux developer Wedson Almeida Filho drops out

> There was a time that Go and Rust were considered to be on equal footing but that is not the case if you look at job openings. Today, there are almost 10,000 job openings related to Go. There are less than three hundred for Rust.

Go’s trump card is Kubernetes, a lot of software gravitates around containers, which means there are a lot of building blocks already written in Go people can reuse (there is a strong batteries included effect like for Python or Java, and understanding Go is necessary to fix or adapt existing deployed code).

Rust people do not seem to understand there is a point where you need to stabilise the API/ABI and commit to it so people start writing long-term apps and publish reusable components. You can only go so far in Gentoo mode.

Proper Community Engagement

Posted Sep 2, 2024 13:55 UTC (Mon) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118) [Link]

> Rust people do not seem to understand there is a point where you need to stabilise the API/ABI and commit to it so people start writing long-term apps and publish reusable components. You can only go so far in Gentoo mode.

As if Go has a stable ABI or really anything besides "yolo static link the entire world"?