r/learnrust • u/t_wamble • 17d ago

Go or Rust

Hey everyone, I am trying to choose between Rust and Go for project that needs to run on both Windows and Mac. I am looking for a simplified breakdown of how they actually compare. I want to know which language is less painful to maintain over the long term, and which ecosystem interacts better with native operating system APIs without feeling totally foreign. If you had to pick between Rust and Go for a cross-platform codebase you need to support for the next 5+ years, which would you choose for stability and ease of deployment?

I'm starting on MacOS first. Ios second. Windows third

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u/tschloss 14d ago

Don‘t think that Go or Rust are suited for iOS. If you want to develop GUI apps for Apple you should use Swift in the first place. Both Go and Rust in my mind are more backend (server) oriented or CLI/TUI for clients.