[vitalus]

I actually saw very few unique features of Rust mentioned in the article which is why I was looking to contrast it at a high level to another language which met the criteria the author laid out while avoiding a mentioned drawback...I would hardly consider "it compiles to native" and "measured and thoughtful standard library" to be features unique to the language, though no doubt important!

[pcwalton]

The sophisticated type checker, the borrow checker, and the LLVM backend were all cited in the article and are all things Rust has that Go doesn't.