I’ve written a couple of blog posts this year on the rewrite of asdf in Go. My previous posts have covered some of the technical details of …

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A developer shares their decision-making process for choosing Go to rewrite asdf, a version manager tool. They evaluated multiple languages including Rust, Elixir/Erlang, Nim, D, and V-lang, ultimately selecting Go for its fast compilation, simplicity, and strong open-source ecosystem. The rewrite took nearly a year but resulted in improved performance and maintainability.

Why I Chose Go

As always, it’s the context that dictates the language to choose.

#zig. They should have chosen zig.

I agree and I personally also really like go for small projects, because you can have them up and running pretty fast with that simplicity that it provides (standart libraries, syntax…)

I understand the frustration with Rust, but in my mind, the process of writing it can be frustrating because the compiler is doing a lot of thinking for you and correcting you. Slow compile times are still a bummer, that’s for sure.

I like go the problem is like I don’t like the artifactual