I don’t really agree with that. Research seems to show that no one really considers Go and Rust as competitors. They just came out around the same time. And I don’t think any language can ever be a distraction. It’s just another potential tool in your arsenal. Just know when to use it.
The snowball/network effect is extremely powerful, especially in tech, especially in new languages. Both of these are positioned to become the golden hammer for many nails, and I really dislike which way the scales tipped. Take for example important infrastructure like docker, k8s, and istio and especially performance critical traefik, etcd, dgraph, and influxdb.
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I don’t really agree with that. Research seems to show that no one really considers Go and Rust as competitors. They just came out around the same time. And I don’t think any language can ever be a distraction. It’s just another potential tool in your arsenal. Just know when to use it.
The snowball/network effect is extremely powerful, especially in tech, especially in new languages. Both of these are positioned to become the golden hammer for many nails, and I really dislike which way the scales tipped. Take for example important infrastructure like docker, k8s, and istio and especially performance critical traefik, etcd, dgraph, and influxdb.