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HAL3000yesterday at 8:44 PM4 repliesview on HN

> Go is bad so "I reach for Rust, Zig..."

I hope my every competitor will take your advice to heart, as one of our competitors did when they read that "Go is not a memory safe language", so they wrote a blog about how they are porting to Rust. While our team was moving fast and using those "primitives that should almost never be used" around our long running production code base with success.

Some time has passed and now their company does not exist anymore and we have a lot of their clients.

Thank you!


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sunrunnertoday at 12:54 AM

Perhaps that company failed because it chose to port things to Rust and not because of Rust itself? Or any other number of reasons that survivorship bias might be mistaking.

xvedejastoday at 2:05 AM

Where would one ever read that Go is not memory safe? That's just a false claim, and anyone believing it would have probably gone out of business regardless of choice of programming language.

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za3farantoday at 12:28 AM

What domain is your company in?