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Gud
on March 9, 2025
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Rust vs. Go: Battle for the Back End
I’ve been around long enough to see the underdog beat the well funded #1.
Linux beat Windows, PostgreSQL beat MySQL.
derekperkins
on March 11, 2025
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I'm not sure either of those examples is true. For servers, Linux won, but that's just a fraction of OS usage. MySQL still has much higher usage rates than Postgres, particularly at massive scale, so calling that "won" is premature at best
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Linux beat Windows, PostgreSQL beat MySQL.