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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And the only thing more important than readability is whether or not the code does what it’s supposed to do.

Isn't that exactly what Rust is supposed to be good at

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

And conversely, something Go is very bad at. For example, os.Chmod silently not doing anything on Windows.