Go vs Rust: Which To Learn In 2024?

Which is the better language between Go and Rust? Which offers the best performance? Which offers the best opportunities? Which should you learn? (I'm using CodeCrafters to dive deep: app.codecrafters.io/join?via=... . To cover the basics, try Exercism: exercism.org/ )
We’ll dive into all that. First, let me explain how we’ll be approaching this.
First, we’ll look at the differences in *philosophy and mindset* between each language.
Second, we’ll explore the *features* of both languages and their relative strengths and weaknesses
Third, we’ll examine what the *statistics* say about the difference between the two languages in terms of developer experience, attractiveness and salary.
And then I’ll tell you what I recommend. But whatever language you choose, I’ve provided links in the description to helpful resources for learning them.
Let’s dive in!
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[@j-p-d-e-v]

It seems both are good to learn and acquire as skills. Based on what Im current experiencing while studying Rust, it has steep learning curve specially understanding Ownership and Lifetimes but its true it forces you to write efficient code.

[@SeyyedMohammadLoghmanDastgheyb]

I appreciate that you valued the time of viewers. Fast and clear to the points. good job!

[@KodapsAcademy]

Yeah thanks I try to be as short as possible :)

[@stefnirk]

Great video. The more languages I learn and get into my field, the more I am starting to take up the position that there are few bad languages, and it does not matter which one you pick. The real question is what kind of problems you want to solve and what language will help you solve those problems in the best way.

[@KodapsAcademy]

Thanks for the kind words, and yeah, I agree with what you say :)

[@kevinmcfarlane2752]

Yes, whenever a new language like Rust appears we tend to get the naysayers - we can do that in X - and the zealots - we should use Rust for everything. In reality, Rust is just another tool in the toolbox that we should pay attention to depending on the types of problems we are working on and whether it can better address the pain points.

[@oliverreviews8496]

@@kevinmcfarlane2752 don't agree here. Rust solves most of the problems all other languages have, go is not an exception. E.g. building simple RESTful api is much more SAFE, EFFICIENT, CONCISE with Rust. I would say with word of inventor of JS, but about Rust: "Everything that can be built with Rust, will be built in Rust". Rn we are living in the era when Rust is pretty young language and is only taking it's field. Rust is different language with it's lifetimes, ownership and borrowing. As soon as you understand these concepts you will never want to comeback to GC collected languages such as Go, C#, Java, Python etc. There's just no point in using these language with such a low cost of learning and understanding Rust. It gives you EVERYTHING that these languages can possibly provide, and even more. There are 2 possible ways: 1. C++ will finally start to be replaced by Rust 2. Rust will still struggle to find his own field and will be still not so widespread language in a daily use. Rn 1st point is much more widespread, than 2nd, but I hope that someday 2nd point will become True.

[@nikkehtine]

I've learned both and didn't regret it. They're very well designed and a joy to use

[@boozy9398]

Which language is more flexable in terms of what you can build with it? Like what are some examples of stuff you built with each and would you do it again?

[@bear458ziif-s]

@@boozy9398 rust is more flexible, but that's because it isn't hindered by garbage collection. if for example you wanted to build a game with go that wouldn't be a viable option. for web apps, go is more popular for it's simplicity, but rust has it's own niche for high performance apps and when you want something extremely robust.

[@kevinmcfarlane2752]

@@boozy9398By design, Rust has a wider possible usage scenario than Go. It can do low-level systems programming and embedded plus real-time. Like Go it can also do Cloud dev. But Go is easier and probably more productive for that, plus more mature. Also, bear in mind that, while Google created Go, they are also using Rust for Android and soon for Chromium. That should give you a clue to where the two languages differ.

[@gp390]

Absolutely agree 👍

[@DP-ym4dg]

Yeah? What exactly is well designed about var life time in rust?

[@georgemound7098]

HI, Please help me out! Currently I'm machine Learning researcher with Computer science background(I'm undergraduate student) and I just know how to code in python. I want to go for Rust and I don't have any idea about a low-level language although they thought us CPP in university but because of my major(ML), I rather use python for simplicity. Do you see any path for Rust in Machine Learning development? I mean can I use it to make high performance and high speed ml and dl applications? I appreciate any help!

[@lalpremi]

Thank you for sharing, I did learn to use Golang very fast, but, RUST needs more time, it is interesting, I did make a few command line tools.

[@cafe-world]

Thank you so much for sharing your valuable thoughts sir !

[@NeytozINF]

I've been c++ programmer for last 18 years mostly in game dev and now I love rust so much

[@kevinmcfarlane2752]

Do you find that, having gotten experience in Rust, you write better C++ code as a result? I’ve heard at least one dev say that.

[@RoastLambShanks]

what about Jai?

[@tko9753]

So, is it a complete replacement for C++? Or there are some areas that Rust cannot beat C++ in?

[@paxvostrum4824]

What is your opinion on Zig and Carbon?

[@GDScriptDude]

I needed to write code to interface between Godot Engine and a CLI application so I did it with Go initially, and it didn't take long to learn Go and build my solution. But it was another exe file rather than a DLL since Godot doesn't support Go. So recently I have been learning Rust since Godot does support Rust extension libraries, and I am liking it so far even though it is more difficult to get to grips with. I think that the code looks nicer than Go such as for the Error checking. But I would say to learn both languages starting with Go.

[@kshyr811]

Oh yeah, godot-rust was a great experience. I wouldn't use it for prototyping or game jams (well, maybe a skill issue), but I can imagine if you're going for a medium/large game - it will help managing project A LOT. I dunno, it's just so hard to manage scripts and signals for me..

[@Alberto_Cavalcante]

Great and concise. Thanks for sharing!

[@VijayRaj-ij4on]

Thanks for the Video and I'm learning the Go. This year I am sure I'll become a Golang developer

[@saravanprathi6956]

Very well articulated, thank you!!

[@KodapsAcademy]

Glad to be of service :)

[@DJ_LSEUM]

Very good video, thank you for your objectivity. Always choose the right tool for the right job!

[@SapphireKR]

This is some good content for a channel with only 8k subs! The video was clean, concise, and allowed me to see both sides and allowed me to judge which path was best for me and that too in 6 minutes Needless to say, you've earned yourself a new subscriber!

[@KodapsAcademy]

Welcome along for the ride :)

[@sandrinjoy]

go for rust!

[@kelicaleb8001]

😂😂🤥pun intended

[@hubamp161]

😂😂

[@CheezePie]

😂

[@sproutboot]

지렸다..

[@Opelawal]

​​@@realfootball338 and end it with zag😂

[@njengathegeek]

I had to hit the like button three times to show how happy I am 😁 nice explanation

[@realfootball338]

I’ve heard that now Rust begins be more popular for bank’s API. It’s safeties allows to better control concurrent operations. Write efficient and safe API for financial transaction’s.

[@tfr]

Wow this video was well written. Great script and great voice for it too. You sound like my English teacher at some points haha Great video mate.

[@KodapsAcademy]

I hope it was a teacher you liked then :D

[@ImmigrantCoder]

Been looking for this go and rust comparison.. thanks my man! new sub here🫡

[@KodapsAcademy]

Thanks, and welcome along for the ride :)

[@Shaunmcdonogh-shaunsurfing]

Both are great languages. Currently using Rust a lot

[@MrSagarvarule]

For Automation like Test Automation (both web and mobile) or Automating repitative task which language, should I learn?

[@KodapsAcademy]

For automation or repetitive tasks I’d actually recommend Python :D

[@j-p-d-e-v]

Python is actually good for Test Automation. I used Python for Network Automation.

[@s4mm1ch324]

Excellent video! Thank you!

[@bebobauomy1265]

Go allows you to turn off the GC and use its own assembly language to low level

[@RSC2194]

great comparision! i will start with rust!

[@2coding]

Go❤

[@xerofenix]

I used rust and other languages too. If there is error, rust compiler simply suggest you what to do to fix that. Just go for Rust.

[@klemensgak6270]

I'm going with Rust so much, but I'm scare about job. I just can't find job. :((( (not many position, while Go has a lot).

[@arjunkandaswamy1532]

can you do a video on zig

[@michaelbrownnn]

Nice video. Gave a thumbs up. Some editing feedback: the constant "wooshing" sound effects were a bit distracting. Otherwise enjoyed it.

[@KodapsAcademy]

Thanks for the feedback. Finding the balance between entertaining and distracting is always a challenge :)

[@willworth9610]

Great video. I gently encourage you to get a pop shield for your microphone. For those of us listening with headphones, it's pretty intense as is.

[@pythonbrothersandfamily]

Great video. thanks a lot bro

[@KodapsAcademy]

Glad to be of service :)

[@tko9753]

So, if someone who is on the same level of mastery in both languages, can’t he do better job in Go use cases with Rust? If not, why?

[@_Lumiere_]

Very well presented video!

[@KodapsAcademy]

Thanks :)

[@shivbore6620]

The text popup sound gets irritating after some time. Btw thank you for the Knowledge you shared with us.

[@user-tk4uk1js7n]

both

[@SandipSJadhav23]

very helpful. Thank you

[@KodapsAcademy]

Glad you liked it :)

[@jcbritobr]

I got the two.

[@Hypergraph]

i am getting ready for go in 2024 if i survive. but for the time my answer is assembly unless it has a higly high level requirements. it's no secret that some populer softwares have some assembly code for performance critical calculations like apollo guidance computer. Readability and maintainability was the big decision factor on that. assembly's clean and easily readable syntax encourages good coding practices, making it easier for developers to write and maintain code. This readability can lead to reduced development time and fewer bugs in the long run. so i am going with assemly for now.

[@KodapsAcademy]

Thanks for your input :) Rust’s “zero costs abstractions” mean you are close to assembly level performance, if that helps ? :)

[@anonion6821]

Imho, I feel as if assembly contains too many abstractions, decreasing the understanding I have of my codebase. I prefer to write in binary.

[@kipfitpal]

​@@anonion6821😂😂😂😂

[@gamhcrew556]

@@anonion6821 that's actually very smart choice, I switched to binary few months ago. And I have to say that it was good choice I made.

[@ramessu7976]

Man I hear people say rust is fast but that hard to believe because sol dapps are slow if rust didn’t have security I’ll go with golang and still would just get a good auditor

[@SiliconValleyDeveloper]

great door you opened!

[@priyamvashi2187]

Informative. thank you

[@KodapsAcademy]

Glad to have been of service :)

[@myrachoantonio8832]

I love the content great work

[@murugeshanswamy3976]

that was so helpul

[@mikeg9b]

Rust is the only memory safe language with no garbage collector.

[@kevinlaflamme7984]

Both

[@ararabarara]

It doesn't matter how difficult a language is to learn, how inconvenient and frustrating it is, what libraries it has, how fast it compiles and how safe the resulting code is. What matters is how much you earn on it!!!

[@TheD3adlysin]

Rust has a soft underside. It's error checker. Always lovingly guiding you towards the right answer

[@olsuhvlad]

Rust is also for server technologies, not just embedded ones. And you can also write GUI on it. :)

[@shriomtrivedi1276]

Great video. Gonna learn both, GO gonna help me in short run and Rust in the long run. And hell yeah guys lets learn zig.

[@ElektrykFlaaj]

yeah, zig is like the beast. But at the same time I get the impression that it requires the most experience to use out of all three. But maybe it's because I myself dont have much professional experience

[@Felixls]

I have 6 years experience with Go and 30 years with C, Rust looks like an enhanced C, I get the value proposition but I just not gonna go back to those kind of things you can build with it. Golang is like you said, the web scale dev of choice.

[@atimney]

You have an incredible voice btw

[@Rohitsingh2410]

try working with dates in Golang and tell me its not frustrating . :(

[@MikhailAksenovV]

It is not really frustrating :) Go has problems, but it scales (people-wise) -very- well and it has compatibility guarantees which is important long-term.

[@jsTsRust]

I'll go for Rust absolutely and i want to work on Solana blockchain

[@schroedingerundkatze]

A no brainer. If you want to learn and write code quickly go for Go. As experienced developer you need around 1 day. Go for Rust and you can write really nice looking code, but count 1 month to learn not to feel like and idiot. Btw. a language won’t teach you the right thing, only you projects, refactoring and fails. And I doubt Rust will be a good invest in your future. It’s far to complex for most people and use cases. Complexity tends to make software worse and not better.

[@mehmeh8883]

Great Video

[@MaxJM711]

Both are amazing options tbf! They both have fields in which they excel in, and learning both can really open up a world of opportunities. Rn my plan is to center my stack around Python, Go and Rust (with some knowledge of C, C++ and Java thrown in there too) and it's been a great experience so far. Can't wait to work on a proper project per each language and try to mix them if possible :)

[@virgileandanurrifqhi8364]

Any information on how to contact you personally? I want to ask you abt the programming that you do

[@MaxJM711]

@@virgileandanurrifqhi8364 Hey there? Tbh rn since I'm in uni I see a slight bit of everything (though mainly focused on the basics) and in my spare time I look at projects I can do. Any question you have I'll gladly answer tho :)

[@Esimaxchannel]

BTW, Thanks

[@user-zv9um9pb6w]

They clearly have very different targets projects.

[@wisdomelue]

very enjoyable video

[@scitechplusexplorer2484]

Rust is love!!!! Also, Rust is spreading its wings into backend development too. And who knows, with time as the language progresses, it may be useful into more areas. No offense, but I tried Go, I didn't like its syntax, its coding style, so I stopped too early(just learned variables and data types). And with the new Rust IDE, RustRover, its breeze to write learn Rust and write code!!!!! I am enjoying Rust, fallen in love with it. Hope I get the job with it too sometime in few years from now.

[@olsuhvlad]

Why should you wait several years? Take any project, delve into it and do it. For any money. :)

[@olsuhvlad]

There is a lot of source code on Github. :)

[@Thekingslayer-ig5se]

Will Rust be useful for ML and data engineers like me ? If yes am ready to invest my time in learning rust

[@rsalmei]

Everybody who gets to learn Rust falls in love with it...

[@bebobauomy1265]

Sorry, could you explain what you mean?@@olsuhvlad

[@Esimaxchannel]

Now I understand, your personality would force you to a specific language and the language you pick would change your personality

[@alfajrdream]

GO is the best.

[@joeyboli]

as someone who loves building apis, i have been using apis using php and is currently learning go for my api dev because of its peformance.

[@realfootball338]

Learn to code, than just code on the language that target platform supports.

[@ZenoTasedro]

It's interesting that you describe Go as being friendly. I think that Go is easier to learn, read and understand, but I find the Go compiler very irritating and like a neckbeard constantly telling me "well actually..." Rust is my favorite language but it's hard to learn and I find it inconsistently friendly. It certainly makes it much easier to do hard things, but it can also make it harder to do easy things 😅

[@1____-____1]

I dont understand how people say Rust isn't friendly. It's almost like they never used it. Not only does the compiler catch errors it gives very helpful error messages and often tells you the exact code you need to change and where to change it to fix the error, instead of some BS stack trace.

[@viktorhugo1715]

in doubt, learn both

[@IvanGreguricOrtolan]

Learn both, win win

[@MyrLin8]

Thanks, RUST it is :)

[@lushokai]

Let me tell you a secret. Once you go with Rust, you can never go back.

[@geekpcrl3906]

Am I the only one here who still loves to write code in C, PHP and Shell script?

[@macronchampion]

No

[@doubleg1094]

Zig if not V

[@Luix]

Why people always compare two so different languages.

[@KodapsAcademy]

Their syntax is very different but there is some overlap in their use cases :)

[@Sourcecodemastergoaheadcheater]

Rust did mention Witchcraft. You had me at witchcraft long time ago 😂😂😂

[@yukendhiran8043]

Mean while I'm choosing c#😂

[@marcusrehn6915]

Learn go if you long for the 80s. Learn rust if you have blue hair.

[@AmeerHamza-cy6km]

Between rust and go, chose PHP

[@tacorevenge87]

Hope Odin becomes popular one day

[@rtdietrich]

I have a much more positive perception of "Rust", thanks to clippy

[@stopper0203]

I'm a Rustacean - just came here to see if my favorite language was done justice 🦀- glad to see it was!

[@r2com641]

Your language is a garbage and overhyped trash

[@Programista100k]

Rust ❤

[@nazargavrilov873]

C++

[@balloney2175]

This video is less than a year old. But it is cool.

[@chrishabgood8900]

Go is easier to get than rust

[@wendellhatcher7011]

They are made to do different things so....

[@theleavingroom]

5:22 me making a mistake in rust

[@CharlesSibbald]

unfortunately the reality is one would need both!

[@faunization]

If you need to Speed and Performance and Low Level things up you can use C and CGo 😂 which make you feel much harder 😂😂😂😂

[@user-mj8bg3fw8w]

Rust is definitely no difficult language. I know people who call c++ very easy, others say its godlike difficult to comprehend the complexity. In rust you do use the same old concepts like every language the past 30 years maybe? values assigned an name which they can be accessed with, for dowhile loops if you want to repeat an instruction or if else to execute it conditionally, expressions that give an result back. Nothing makes rust harder. Rust is hard for billion dollar companies like chromium which reached many millions line of code today and its challenging to port some specific features to rust so they are uncertain. But for every other person who doesnt build products for 5 million plus users and have to cover every edge cases there is no reason against rust

[@connerholden]

If you're trying to find a job, I would not recommend Rust. The overwhelming majority of job listings prefer Go. And out of the Rust ones, most of them are blockchain startups. Consider that any remaining Rust jobs are going to be very competitive. If you don't have professional experience working with Rust, then forget about it. It saddens me to say it, but it's not even close. I've managed to incorporate Rust at my current job for 2+ years now, and while I love it, it's just not marketable. And if you think people will be impressed that your resume has a lot of Rust, the vast majority of people screening your resume are not technical and are only looking to see if you match their position.

[@RiwenX]

I know both. Rust all the way

[@tmartin9482]

Wow 6 1/2 minutes for the recurring and yet long known realization - the right tool for the job - and then reduced to just two tools that could hardly have had more obvious differences. meh

[@marcomazzoli9172]

Il solito video/articolo che dice che a seconda di cosa ci devi fare, scegli l'uno o l'altro.. niente di più

[@tenshizer0]

Both. End

[@michaelmedia1270]

GO for Rust

[@cinageransayeh]

Why not use C++ Safe methods?

[@ramessu7976]

If u trying to build a Uber go with go if u trying to build a bank or Defi go with rust

[@KodapsAcademy]

The parallel would have worked even better if you’d used a self driving car in the second part :)

[@Nan0MK_Old]

Zig

[@ci9vt]

Mojo

[@kevinmcfarlane2752]

Perhaps not yet, but I expect in 2025. I did dabble a bit in the playground though. Not tried the SDK, but I do keep aware of what’s happening.

[@No-no-no-no-nope]

If you rest, you rust. Go!

[@danvilela]

If rust is the funghi, why the logo is oxidized? and why the freaking mascot is a crab? this language makes no sense