I am in a dilemma of chosing between rust and golang. So I am thinking about creating a dating app that will suggest you date on the basis of your spotify listening. For the backend I want to use either rust or golang.
I haven’t coded in any of the language before. But heard very nice things about it. Please help me.

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A reader is facing a dilemma between Rust and Go(lang) for developing a dating app with Spotify integration and is seeking advice on which language to choose.

rust vs golang

I will not deep dive into both, just a simple overview:
Rust is great.
But just because Rust is great doesn’t mean that everything has to be built in Rust (Just as because you can do many things, you should, Yes, it’s for you JS).
Rust is useful for critical services and applications.
Go is great.
It lacks many of the shiny things Rust has, but it’s “good enough” for most jobs, especially back-end ones.
If you’re making your applications for the fun of learning one of these 2.
Choose Rust, its steep learning curve is very rewarding and you’ll learn a lot.
But you’ll need a few months to be productive with it.
If your goal is to deliver your product.
Switch to Go! Easy to learn, by the end of a GoWeek you should be ready, and you’ll appreciate the productivity and simplicity it offers.
At the end of the day, you need to ask yourself what your project goals are and choose the right tools for the right reason.
Choosing Rust because of a brilliant article will probably do you more harm than good.

The problem with Rust is you will cry a lot , learn , and then cry , and then learn. It’s, in my opinion , harder than Go … and I love it! :D

I have coded in both langs. Both has pros and cons(which others already mentioned).
If I am working in side projects, I will always choose Rust. It is a feature rich(less foot guns than Go) and fun to code 😊

My take.
It should be based on your project.
Rust=&gt; Will make you understand OS concepts very well. Best for performance intensive applications.
GoLang=&gt; Will not require deep understanding of OS concepts. Has many builtin packages. Much suited for web servers.
Final Verdict
Will chose GoLang if you want quick iterations and want to work faster.
For any performance critical application will just Rust.

Just an FYI, this app already exists and it’s called TurnUp