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The Tor Project is switching to Rust

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348 points giuliomagnifico | 5 comments | 12 Dec 25 12:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.194s | source
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anthk ◴[12 Dec 25 13:25 UTC] No.46243905[source]▶
Why not Go? It's more portable.
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hu3 ◴[12 Dec 25 13:30 UTC] No.46243939[source]▶
and easier to learn.

and better funded.

and easier to find devs.

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1. ramon156 ◴[12 Dec 25 13:38 UTC] No.46244004[source]▶
They both suck getting new devs for

Also, just because it's part of Google doesn't make go better funded. Theyd probably be fine killing go.

Definitely easier to learn though :P

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2. FieryMechanic ◴[12 Dec 25 14:13 UTC] No.46244323[source]▶
Go been around for quite a while now. It isn't going anywhere.
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3. hu3 ◴[12 Dec 25 14:34 UTC] No.46244506[source]▶
> They both suck getting new devs for

I'm willing to be Rust suck a ton more to hire devs. Since, as we both agree, Go is easy to learn. Any C#, PHP or Java dev can get going with Go in not time.

4. vablings ◴[12 Dec 25 15:16 UTC] No.46244897[source]▶
Rust has been around for over 10 years now. In the last five years the language hasn't changed much and has gotten better and better
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5. FieryMechanic ◴[12 Dec 25 20:51 UTC] No.46248774{3}[source]▶
I didn't like Rust one bit and gave up learning it. Go on the other hand is quite nice.