REPOSITORY COMPARISON · github.com & github.com

golang/go

12,927 files · 32 langs · 2,476,664 lines

@38e988e

rust-lang/rust

39,425 files · 44 langs · 3,914,989 lines

@1f08727

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 3.0× more files than golang/go.

01Overview

absolute counts side by side

12,927

go files

3.0×

39,425

rust files

2,476,664

go code lines

1.6×

3,914,989

rust code lines

367,302

go complexity

1.5×

243,447

rust complexity

go languages

1.4×

rust languages

go secrets

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rust secrets

02Token cost to read raw

why dossiers exist

golang/go

~17.3M tokens

→ via code_analyze: ~2k tokens

rust-lang/rust

~27.4M 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 80.1%

Blank 8.0%

Comments 11.9%

Code 78.0%

Blank 8.8%

Comments 13.2%

04Language breakdown

top 6 each

go

80.5%

Plain Text

9.3%

Assembly

6.4%

0.9%

HTML

0.8%

Snakemake

0.8%

+ 26 more

rust

Rust

71.4%

JSON

9.0%

HTML

8.1%

XML

4.0%

Markdown

2.9%

YAML

1.1%

+ 38 more

05Tech stack overlap

17 shared · 40 only in go · 61 only in rust

Shared 17

Standard Library: IO 41/22 Standard Library: Types 26/34 Standard Library: General Utilities 26/9 Standard Library: OS Interaction 1/23 Standard Library: String Manipulation 19/1 Standard Library: String & Text 2/18 Standard Library: Assertions 5/12 Lodash 1/13 Standard Library: Data Formats 1/11 POSIX: Unistd (System Calls) 10/1 Node.js Path 1/9 Node.js File System 1/6 + 5 more

Only in go

Standard IO 2259 Standard OS Interaction 1923 Standard Time 1739 Standard Testing 1618 Standard String Manipulation 1566 Standard Concurrency Primitives 702 Standard Math 578 Standard Reflection 483 Standard Logging 425 Standard CLI Flags 345 Standard Net 344 Standard Context 307 + 28 more

Only in rust

Rust Standard Library: Collections 1266 Rust Standard Library: Concurrency 869 Rust Standard Library: Formatting 754 Rust Standard Library: Error Handling 567 Tracing Crate 540 Rust Standard Library: IO 410 Ring 373 Config (config-rs) 357 Rust Standard Library: OS Interaction 356 Rust Standard Library: Filesystem 220 Serde 133 Rust Standard Library: Time 133 + 49 more

06Most complex files

where the heavy lifting lives · click to drill in

go

File	Lines	Cx
src/cmd/compile/internal/ssa/rewriteAMD64.go	97,235	23,831
src/cmd/compile/internal/ssa/rewritegeneric.go	35,736	14,205
src/cmd/compile/internal/test/constFold_test.go	18,106	6,660
src/cmd/compile/internal/ssa/rewriteARM64.go	24,547	6,587
src/cmd/compile/internal/ssa/rewriteARM.go	19,196	5,013
src/cmd/compile/internal/ssa/rewriteS390X.go	14,603	3,710

rust

File	Lines	Cx
tests/ui/expr/if/expr-stack-overflow.rs	10,416	15,615
library/stdarch/crates/core_arch/src/aarch64/sve/ld_st_tests_aarch64.rs	12,786	1,190
compiler/rustc_trait_selection/src/error_reporting/traits/suggestions.rs	5,712	1,132
src/librustdoc/html/static/js/search.js	4,160	863
compiler/rustc_resolve/src/late/diagnostics.rs	3,950	844
compiler/rustc_hir_typeck/src/method/suggest.rs	4,489	830

07Code quality findings

absolute count vs density per 1k LOC

32,731

go findings

3.0×

96,609

rust findings

13.2

go findings / 1k LOC

density

24.7

rust findings / 1k LOC

go errors

5823×

17,470

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

go

rust

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