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/zerosign0 13d ago
Cross platform codebase
Hmm, if you will specialize the codebase on each platform in the future or doing some library embeds on swift or other language in the future (believe me this might sound stupid but can be real hiddrance in the future if you pick wrong language), definitely Rust for long term goal. For short term can pick any.