Why is Go more popular than Rust?

Go’s rich standard library and easy concurrency makes standing up HTTP servers or other networked services simple and easy . Go is also faster, safer, and less memory intensive than most of the legacy competition. For example, Go is less memory intensive than Java and C#, faster than Python and Ruby, safer than C++.

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Is Go as fast as Rust?

By contrast, Go is more concerned about simplicity, and it’s willing to sacrifice some (run-time) performance for it. But Go’s build speed is unbeatable, and that’s important for large codebases. Rust is faster than Go . In the benchmarks above, Rust was faster, and in some cases, an order of magnitude faster.27 May 2021

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