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		Gud 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 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 11 months ago [–]

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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