Improvements over Rust: - garbage collection simplifies developing network applications - no lifetimes - built-in concurrency runtime and apis for web development
Improvements over bun/node/typescript: - massive performance gains due to Go's support for parallel execution and native code generation - easier deployment since Duck compiles to a statically linked native executable that doesn't need dependencies - reduced complexity and costs since a single duck deployment massively outscales anything that runs javascript - streamlined toolchain management using duckup (compiler version manager) and dargo (build tool)
Improvements over Go: - a more expresive type system supporting Union types, Duck typing and tighter control over mutability - Server Side Rendering with a jsx-like syntax as well as preact components for frontend development - better error handling based on union types - a rust based reimplementation of tailwind that is directly integrated with the language (but optional to use) - type-safe json apis