I encourage everyone in this thread to not take things personally. Rust vs. Go conversations are going to cause a lot of angst on both sides. I also encourage people not to assume or read into comments, where someone states that "Rust is not a play thing", they are not implying that Go is.
For some people who've spent the time with it, Rust is a godsend, but that does not mean that by believing so they implicitly hate Go in anyway.
Go clearly has a lot of people who love it as much as people who love Rust, and because they overlap, there will constantly be a conversation of which language to pick for cases where it looks like both could be used. As such, the learning curve for Rust will always be an impediment, to its adoption, which is sad, b/c in all my experience it's the only language that I've used which inherently answers every core issue or fundamental bug that I've encountered in my career. This is why I'm really excited that the Rust core development team has decided to focus on development experience heavily this year.
For some people who've spent the time with it, Rust is a godsend, but that does not mean that by believing so they implicitly hate Go in anyway.
Go clearly has a lot of people who love it as much as people who love Rust, and because they overlap, there will constantly be a conversation of which language to pick for cases where it looks like both could be used. As such, the learning curve for Rust will always be an impediment, to its adoption, which is sad, b/c in all my experience it's the only language that I've used which inherently answers every core issue or fundamental bug that I've encountered in my career. This is why I'm really excited that the Rust core development team has decided to focus on development experience heavily this year.