Rust VS Go VS TypeScript – which back end language is for you? With Tai Groot [Podcast #176]

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Tai Groot. He's a back end software engineer and maintains an open source project used by companies like Google. For the first half of the interview we talk about ba...

Jun 28, 2025 - 01:40

Rust VS Go VS TypeScript – which back end language is for you? With Tai Groot [Podcast #176]

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Tai Groot. He's a back end software engineer and maintains an open source project used by companies like Google.

For the first half of the interview we talk about back end programming languages. Then he shares tips for running learning back end development and running your own developer consultancy.

We talk about:

The Performance VS Developer Experience trade-offs of Rust, Go, and TypeScript
How to run a free open source project profitably
How to mentor junior devs and ramp them up to work at your consultancy
Why he recommends devs learn Arch Linux

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](https://www.donate.freecodecamp.orgLinks)Links we talk about during our conversation:

Tai's website: https://taigrr.com/
Why Tai doesn't use Salt Stack anymore and how it inspired grlk: https://taigrr.github.io/blog/so-long-salt-project/
The promise-breaking app: https://bridgetime.net/
freeCodeCamp's Arch Linux handbook: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-install-arch-linux/
The Arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page