[GTALUG] Increasing interest in the Go language

[Jamon Camisso]

On 2018-02-03 10:28 AM, David Mason via talk wrote:
> I'd also comment on Rust being an interesting competitor to Go.
> 
> Rust has better performance, complete statically determined safety
> (enforced by the type system), no garbage collection, minimal runtime, and
> an active group targeting WebAssembly (i.e. very high performance browser
> programs). It's what you should be programming in if you think you need C.
> 
> Go has a simpler type system and good-enough performance for many
> applications. It might be what you should be programming in if you need a
> higher-performance Python (but with a lot fewer libraries).
> 
> They both interop with C and C++; I think Rust has a richer set of
> libraries (crates they call them).

https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust#cryptography is what
scared me off Rust when I was looking at it for a personal project to do
with TLS certificates a year or so ago. Specifically, the multitude of
crates for something that's so easy to get wrong made me wary.

Has the situation changed much in Rust crypto land?

Cheers, Jamon