Show HN: Convert Go to Rust
With people looking less and less at code, why not choose a language with better runtime characteristics instead of the one you wanted to write code in before?
As a Go coder I have migrated several of my small tools to Rust, as Rust is faster, uses less memory and has no GC latency (wish Go had arenas).
The main obstacle was mapping third party dependencies like open source libraries.
As a solution I have created 'rinku'. You give it a Go dependency and it gives you a Rust dependency.
> $ rinku lookup https://github.com/spf13/cobra > https://github.com/clap-rs/clap
Prompt now becomes (real prompt is more complicated)
> Translate the project from Go to Rust. For dependencies migration use rinku.
The library of mappings is not yet extensive, but migration is now much easier.