> Rust on the other hand is optimized for maintaining (it's right there in the name: software should be allowed to become old and "collect rust"). Rust APIs are very hard to misuse, everything is constrained and specified very explicitly. Documentation and testing live inline with your code. You know exactly what a piece of code can and can't do - you even know whether it's allowed to mutate an object you're passing it. And of course certain mistakes are impossible to make at all without (again, explicitly) dipping into unsafe { }.
A language that is touted as "difficult to learn" and "difficult to onboard" is by definition not built for maintaining. You could maybe make the argument that the guarantees provided by the language and compiler reduce the maintenance burden of software built in Rust, but I don't even really think that statement has been tested (via Rust being so young).
It is tiresome the frequency that legitimate language discussions for some reason turn into Rust vs. Go trash talking. It is almost certain that in 10 years, both will be used more than they are now by several x's. I think pretending you can predict what'll happen with either (and the industry) over that time is pretty silly. There will be legacy apps that people hate working with in all programming languages, and there's nothing that can save you.
A language that is touted as "difficult to learn" and "difficult to onboard" is by definition not built for maintaining. You could maybe make the argument that the guarantees provided by the language and compiler reduce the maintenance burden of software built in Rust, but I don't even really think that statement has been tested (via Rust being so young).
It is tiresome the frequency that legitimate language discussions for some reason turn into Rust vs. Go trash talking. It is almost certain that in 10 years, both will be used more than they are now by several x's. I think pretending you can predict what'll happen with either (and the industry) over that time is pretty silly. There will be legacy apps that people hate working with in all programming languages, and there's nothing that can save you.