Slide with text: “Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++.”

In small print it says the data is collected over 2022 and 2023.

  • tatterdemalion@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    They should compare defect rate with the Go teams. I’m curious if the advertised benefits of Rust’s type system give some practical advantage.

    EDIT: Just watched the actual talk. Apparently they did this comparison, and found that Rust has fewer defects when compared to Go.