REPOSITORY COMPARISON · github.com & github.com

golang/go

13,424 files · 34 langs · 2,573,386 lines

@dfc6f7d

rust-lang/rust

42,425 files · 45 langs · 4,137,652 lines

@8006091

golang/go dossier rust-lang/rust dossier golang/go on github.com → rust-lang/rust on github.com →

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rust-lang/rust has 3.2× more files than golang/go.

01Overview

absolute counts side by side

13,424

go files

3.2×

42,425

rust files

2,573,386

go code lines

1.6×

4,137,652

rust code lines

394,049

go complexity

1.3×

292,288

rust complexity

go languages

1.3×

rust languages

go secrets

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rust secrets

02Token cost to read raw

why dossiers exist

golang/go

~18.0M tokens

→ via code_analyze: ~2k tokens

rust-lang/rust

~29.0M tokens

→ via code_analyze: ~2k tokens

Either way, structured analysis collapses both to a couple of kilotokens. See it in action on the homepage.

03Line composition

code, blank, and comment shares

Code 79.5%

Blank 8.1%

Comments 12.5%

Code 77.9%

Blank 8.8%

Comments 13.2%

04Language breakdown

top 6 each

go

80.9%

Plain Text

9.1%

Assembly

6.2%

0.8%

Snakemake

0.8%

HTML

0.8%

+ 28 more

rust

Rust

71.1%

JSON

8.6%

HTML

7.7%

XML

3.8%

Markdown

2.9%

Patch

1.5%

+ 39 more

05Tech stack overlap

16 shared · 44 only in go · 52 only in rust

Shared 16

Standard Library: Types 26/42 Standard Library: IO 41/24 Standard Library: General Utilities 26/10 Standard Library: OS Interaction 1/32 Standard Library: String Manipulation 19/2 Standard Library: Assertions 5/12 Standard Library: Data Formats 1/14 Standard Library: String & Text 1/14 Node.js Path 1/11 POSIX: Unistd (System Calls) 10/1 Node.js File System 1/7 Node.js OS 1/5 + 4 more

Only in go

Standard Testing 1695 Standard String Manipulation 1562 Standard OS Interaction 1374 Standard IO 1037 Standard Concurrency Primitives 681 Standard Time 681 Standard Math 596 Standard Reflection 469 Standard Logging 349 Standard Context 286 Standard Net 236 Standard Encoding 216 + 32 more

Only in rust

Rust Standard Library: Concurrency 903 Rust Standard Library: Formatting 768 Rust Standard Library: Collections 624 Tracing Crate 556 Rust Standard Library: IO 425 Rust Standard Library: OS Interaction 353 Rust Standard Library: Filesystem 230 Config (config-rs) 211 Rust Standard Library: Time 144 Rust Standard Library: Panic Handling 138 Serde 124 Rust Standard Library: Error Handling 95 + 40 more

06Most complex files

where the heavy lifting lives · click to drill in

go

File	Lines	Cx
src/cmd/compile/internal/ssa/rewrite/amd64/rewriteAMD64.go	99,002	24,413
src/cmd/compile/internal/ssa/rewrite/generic/rewritegeneric.go	37,505	14,892
src/cmd/compile/internal/ssa/rewrite/arm64/rewriteARM64.go	35,145	9,923
src/cmd/compile/internal/test/constFold_test.go	18,106	6,660
src/cmd/compile/internal/ssa/rewrite/arm/rewriteARM.go	18,439	4,717
src/cmd/compile/internal/ssa/rewrite/s390x/rewriteS390X.go	14,606	3,710

rust

File	Lines	Cx
tests/ui/expr/if/expr-stack-overflow.rs	10,416	15,615
src/tools/rust-analyzer/crates/syntax/src/ast/generated/nodes.rs	11,027	2,451
src/librustdoc/html/static/js/search.js	4,160	1,326
compiler/rustc_trait_selection/src/error_reporting/traits/suggestions.rs	6,342	1,323
library/stdarch/crates/core_arch/src/aarch64/sve/ld_st_tests_aarch64.rs	12,786	1,200
tests/ui/try-trait/deep-try-chain-issue-153583.rs	4	1,152

07Code quality findings

absolute count vs density per 1k LOC

9,398

go findings

4.8×

45,077

rust findings

3.7

go findings / 1k LOC

density

10.9

rust findings / 1k LOC

go errors

0 vs 4

rust errors

Absolute counts scale with codebase size; density per 1k LOC is the fairer comparison of per-line code quality.

08Secrets & credentials

pattern-based scan

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rust

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