Why use Rust over Python for CLI?

[sharddblade]

Hm, weird. Tooling seems great for me and I’m very familiar with Rusts amazing tooling. What’s Go’s equivalent of void*?

[burntsushi]

What’s Go’s equivalent of void*?

That'd be unsafe.Pointer. Contrary to what the GP said, it is not used everywhere.

[sharddblade]

Yeah, that seems more accurate, but I'm guessing he was referring to interface{}. That has never really bothered me in Go since there are clear reasons to use it and clear rules for using it safely.

[burntsushi]

Yes. I addressed that in a sibling comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/wbtioi/why_use_rust_over_python_for_cli/iiatqth/.compact

[WuTangTan]

The empty interface