8 months ago

The past few years I've seen more projects use Go or Rust for heavy lifting alongside a higher-level language like PHP or JavaScript. I've learned a little Go myself but don't know enough about Rust to understand when you'd choose one over the other. Vercel is currently migrating a codebase from Go to Rust, it's interesting to read the reasoning behind the decision.

Go ends up allowing us to set a file permission code on Windows, even when doing so will have no effect.

If you want to set a file permission code in Rust, you have to explicitly annotate the code as Unix-only.