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From another point of view "usable" isn't a word I'd associate with Go, especially not when there is an "unlike Rust" in the phrase. I've not had any issues of the sort when building out Rust applications. At this point the only time I touch Go is if I need to modify something else someone has made-- which I avoid at all costs


Maybe AI will make it more palatable but I just can't get into Rust.

I can probably easily understand borrowing. It's mostly an issue of controlling pointer aliasing wrt mutability, especially in a multithreaded context I guess.

But that gottdarn syntax... And goroutines are too nice for the type of code I use.

I'm too spoiled with Go I guess.




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