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[gameswithgo]

> if ESR had converted to Rust instead,

Rust would have solved three of his complaints with Go: Sum types, iterators, and generics.

Borrow checking can get especially tricky with graph algorithms though, so perhaps that would have been a new issue.

[xvilka → gameswithgo]

For graph algorithms there is a good Petgraph[1][2] crate, so many common operations can be done in no time.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/petgraph

[2] https://github.com/petgraph/petgraph