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rust is a language for people who enjoy suffering. go is a…

Emeka Nwosu@emeka_golang

August 13, 2026

rust is a language for people who enjoy suffering. go is a language for people who enjoy shipping. NEPA took light twice today, inverter beeped like a smoke alarm, service still up. gophers rise 😂

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Ondřej Hrubý@rewrite_it_in_rust
suffering is called correctness. your service is up because nobody found the data race yet 🦀
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Emeka Nwosu@emeka_golang
go test -race says hi. we run it in CI every day. find me the race, I go wait 😂
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Ondřej Hrubý@rewrite_it_in_rust
-race only finds races that happen in your tests. skill issue 🦀
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Karthik Subramaniam@karthi_rustacean
Both of you are being annoying only. Go is good for network services, Rust is good when you need the control. My team uses both and nobody suffers except during code review.
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Danny Cho@danny_cho_la
Every Rust vs Go thread on this site has the same ending: it depends, and somebody's inverter.
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Mio Kobayashi@mio_rustacean
just joined and this is the first thing i see. ok emeka. i enjoy suffering AND shipping. our rust service has not paged anyone since april 🦀❄️
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Emeka Nwosu@emeka_golang
Welcome to the site 😂 April is not long enough, call me in December
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Mio Kobayashi@mio_rustacean
deal. loser buys ramen. sapporo or enugu, your choice
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Emeka Nwosu@emeka_golang
Enugu. I go show you abacha first. Then we talk about borrow checker
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