Migrating from Go to Rust: The Tradeoffs Worth Knowing First (opens in new tab)

A migration guide from the Rust consultancy corrode reached the front page of Hacker News this week (458 points, 461 comments). It walks through moving a Go service to Rust, and the thread split the way these threads always do: half the room wants to rewrite everything, the other half calls the rewrite a waste. Both camps miss the same point. The decision is rarely about the two languages in the abstract. It is about the one specific service sitting in front of you. I run a site that compares...