Systems Programming is kinda generic category and it ultimately depends on the individual to define what’s system programming and what’s not, is it performance, security or access to hardware

Nobody enjoys writing Go but there’s a reason do code in Go and we can’t ignore it

I write rust full time.

I don't see how people can "love" writing rust either. I love a lot of things about Rust and its ecosystem, but the syntax day-to-day isn't one of those things.

Basically the type system, most rust projects usually don’t come near “The advanced Reason there’s rust” and if they do need that there’re hardcore libraries for that, an ecosystem like that usually suffers from exhaustion cause no dev will want to maintain just a library and this is also the good apart of rust cause it lessens the barrier into the language as the ecosystem gets bigger

You can’t just compare a library from another language, because they’re different, if all flag parsing library were inspired by Clap it’ll be a living nightmare for language that isn’t rust

Why can't I compare a library from another language? I have spent a significant amount of time with all of the popular flag parsing libraries in Go and none were as flexible yet easy to work with as clap. Anyway, I am not necessarily talking about syntax but moreso about the feature sets and overall quality.

You don’t have to worry people have been saying this for more than a decade now and I see no action about it

Not gonna lie am also getting 200% triggered whenever he states gVisor Syscall costs lol

From my experience the reason $GOPATH has pkg, bin src directory was they wanted to limit spread of affecting the filesystem, I could zip my go directory put it in another computer and still works as good as before, I hated Python because it couldn’t do this even pyenv have high chances of it not working correctly if changed to a different distro and most times I don’t wanna download 500M of anaconda everytime I swap.

> and b) configured using a YAML-based DSL.

Go devops HATE YAML-based DSL we just put it there cause there’s not alternatives, json ?, don’t wanna go there fortunately there’s CUE lang but moving all these project to accept cue isn’t that easy either.

> Devops guys are mostly incapable of using any service that isn't a) written in Go

Lol we basically rewrite it in Go if we’re using it frequently. Most Go projects are just things the founder really wanted for himself

Dude if the 70% don’t care they don’t care besides it’s open source

> The huge volume of boilerplate makes the code harder to read, and annoying to write

That may be superficially true but don’t forget our brain is structured to optimize every repetitive work or some boilerplates, we can basically use “strcpy” and “string_copy” we are so used to all these that even if repeated a billion times it can be processed fast