Does anyone else have muddled together in their mind Golang, Rust, and Dart, as three almost cult-favorite languages of similar popularity and unclear differentiation? Here's what I found; someone fill me in or prove me wrong, please!
Golang is easy, Rust is hard, Dart is made for web. Dart and Go were both Google products, though Dart is open now. Go and Rust hit heavy on the low-level performance thing. Rust has the most compelling Free Software story of the three, if tech ethics matter to you.
@worldsendless But I do think Rust has the better story in terms of "free softwareness", but the syntax has been what's turning me off from it at times.
@ProtoOfSnagem I haven't looked at the Syntax, but I ought to, since I'm something of a Lisp fan
+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@worldsendless i'm not sure where the go is less free idea is based on. it has not one, but two compilers where one is gccgo and the stdlib is bsd licensed.
Because of GC I suppose, depends on the person
> Dart is made for web
Nice meme
Go is made for servers and backends and that's where it shines.
Rust is general "mid" level programming language.
Dart is made for making cross platform near native application and it sucks for web right now, that's due to it putting everything in <canvas>
@worldsendless Honestly I should try something like Rust or Go, but I'm too much of a stubborn Cnile to give in.