[bluejekyll]

You can just as easily ask, why not any other language, for the exact same reason.

But since you asked about Go, here are the 3 reasons that I would not pick Go:

1) no generics means less code reuse, which mean more testing of more code (potential runtime issues)

2) allowance of Null, means potential NPE/seg-faults (runtime issue)

3) non-type safe, inconsistent error handling (another runtime issue)

Go is a fine language, like many others, but it's not the same as Rust, and doesn't offer the same features (like no runtime/GC), which means it's not as flexible in its usage. But, I will grant you that Go is "easier" to write code in.

Anyway, there will be and are many great programs written in Go, as there have been in C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Erlang, Haskell, Ocaml, Ruby, JS, etc. To each there own. Mine is Rust today, was Java before that, C++ before that, C before that, and Basic before that.

[vitalus]

Sure, it just felt like a more natural fit than other languages given the criteria which is why I called it out specifically

Thanks for your mention of additional runtime safety, it isn't something I had considered