As I see it, Go could be a nice alternative to Java or C# for most problems, and Rust looks like a nice alternative to C++ for most problems.
One could go and compare Javascript to COBOL code solving some random problem, and perhaps even that can be helpful in some way, but the result of that comparison should not imply that one of these is, in general, better than other.
I guess Rust and Go are compared so frequently because they are both becoming very popular and people are tring to figure out which one of them is worth investing time to learn.
A lot of these comparisons remind me of java vs c++ discussions 2 decades ago.
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As I see it, Go could be a nice alternative to Java or C# for most problems, and Rust looks like a nice alternative to C++ for most problems.
One could go and compare Javascript to COBOL code solving some random problem, and perhaps even that can be helpful in some way, but the result of that comparison should not imply that one of these is, in general, better than other.
I guess Rust and Go are compared so frequently because they are both becoming very popular and people are tring to figure out which one of them is worth investing time to learn.
A lot of these comparisons remind me of java vs c++ discussions 2 decades ago.