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Rust vs GO: An Under-the-hood Showdown

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Go and Rust get pitched against each other constantly, usually as vibes over substance. We wanted to actually dig into it: how it feels to write each one day to day, what the benchmarks show under load, and who's actually running what in production right now 🤔

🔋 On this episode of Patchnotes:
0:00 - Introduction
0:49 - The Developer Experience
3:27 - Raw Power Comparison
4:17 - Ecosystem and Maturity
5:35 - Real World Examples
7:18 - Conclusions - Who Wins?

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20 Comments

@LasTCursE69 1 month ago

Honestly thought this channel has 1M+ subs when opened the video, really good job on the editing!

@x_isnt_my_name 1 month ago

7:07 "speed” should be “development speed”

@SchepInza 1 month ago

i absolutely love cargo, its one of the main reasons ive been using rust a lot lately.

@PetraleiTanyl 1 month ago

Rust specifically CAN panic at runtime. There are also project that explicitly use this to throw/catch, until they try and work on a platform that doesn't have stack unwinding.

@winyatasenjaya 1 month ago

For now, I'm still using Go for my work. For some reason, I still find it too difficult to learn Rust. Maybe you guys can give me some advice on how easy to learn Rust?

@stefan5083 1 month ago

I started writing in Rust, because the executable is smaller and harder to decompile.
I come from Delphi, with an application still in production, and 31 MB of disk space and 26 MB of RAM, managing 190 tables ... no Framework, no drivers ... just run ...
For AI, Rust is more of a pain, but the detailed error messages help me fix it
Peace!

@PatrickHarned-b6i 2 weeks ago

Go has an unmistakably better tradeoffs. 1 easy to use 2. Predictable, very good performance
Rust is 1. Hard af to use, might even be harder than just using c++. 2. Compile times are riddiculous due to dependency chains and cargo nonsense. 3. Performance is great but not better than you get with C or c++. Is the learning curve for the borrower worse than the learning curve for proper memory management? I don’t think so.

@OlegKorsak 1 month ago

never came to zero-cost abstractions as promised

@kirishima638 1 month ago

It’s 2026, not 1996. I don’t want to be thinking about memory management, or borrow/move semantics, or object lifetimes. Or objects.

I just want to solve a problem, leverage modem multi core parallelism easily, with easy maintainable code.

So I chose Go.

Rust feels like it tries to be a better C++, but C++ was broken from the outset.

@ThomasRaphael_tom 1 month ago

Awesome video. Subbed. My new favorite channel. ❤❤

@gloubacker 1 month ago

Everything I say everything will be rewritten in Rust…

@stldweller 1 month ago

You super-car analogy is so backwards but I understand what you're getting at. A Lambo is not easy to drive if you are tall it's so hard to even get inside of it. The driving position is so low down, etc, etc.

@jasurplv1068 1 month ago

Hi
Can someone tell me the make and the model of the keyboard at the background on the video. Casey Muratori showcased roughly this keyboard on a "ThePrimeTime" but did not mention the model (the make he said was Keychron). I was been looking for that (the one Caey showcased) ever since.
Thank you.

@stevefan1999 3 weeks ago

Why does it matters anymore when you have AI overlord

@apesy888 1 month ago

Good video but this felt more of a Rust biased video. Any "negative" for Rust you kinda gave an explanation for it or explained it away. Not bad per se but I thought it would be a more even handed comparison of the 2.

@TheReal_LuaDipa 1 month ago

Nothing beats raw C.

@AllToDevNull 1 month ago

Go is exactly not for microservices. If your requests hits multiple services, chance that you are in the gc waiting loop on multiple services after each other. This gives you the extreme response spikes you see from time to time then. the 5s request for something that takes 300ms normally