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I find Rust extremely easy to read. In comparison, I was trying to read a Go codebase and found it hard to read. Of course, I've spent multiple years writing Rust and almost no time writing Go and I don't know the Go programming language at all. It was very easy to "learn" of course. But I didn't actually learn it given when I started reading code bases I was interested in I started to see weird things like

`var _ litestream.ReplicaClient = (*ReplicaClient)(nil)`

which I couldn't find an explanation for using normal means so I asked chatgpt and it told me it's an

"interface compliance check" "This line is a way of ensuring that a certain type (*ReplicaClient) implements a certain interface (litestream.ReplicaClient)."

For some reason this pattern was left out of the official documentation. Am I missing other patterns? I find Traits much easier to understand.

Also, like many others I give coding interviews and people writing Go always seem to run into null pointer errors. I'm not making that up. (I have no sample for Rust programmers)




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