Exploring Numeric Data Types in Rust and Go

Introduction

The comprehensive yet strict static type systems provided by Rust and Go, modern compiled systems programming languages that are closer to the metal than other dynamically typed scripting languages such as Python or JavaScript, allow one to deterministically declare sized variables as well as unsized, architecture dependent variables.

The privilege of a garbage collector (GC) in Go means that there is more flexibility when it comes to manipulating types and values. Rust, being a statically-typed language that has no …

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