Why Go Was the Right Choice for CockroachDB (2015)

  • I would be interesting to do a comparison of bugs found / fixed in CDB vs TiKV [1] (written in Rust) to see how much of an impact thread & memory safety have.

    [1] https://github.com/tikv/tikv

  • FYI, this was written in 2015. Can we update the title?

  • Coming up next - why Go was a wrong choice and Rust is the right one

  • Needs a (2015).