[zellyn]

It really sounds like you might like Rust. Have you looked into it?

/snark

But seriously, for a long time before Rust was fully baked, I kept wishing it would be done, so that people hating on Go could go use Rust instead. Now it's fully baked, which is awesome.

[stouset]

Rust is an example of a phenomenally well-designed language.

When I first started go, I was incredibly excited to start learning it. From everything I'd heard, it was everything I was hoping to find in a language. The more I started using it, the more and more its poor design decisions and the hollow defenses of these decisions by its community started to grate on me.

Rust, on the other hand, I was loathing learning. I'd already just learned go and was extremely disappointed with it. I really didn't want to learn something else in this language space that I assumed overlapped so much, and I really entered into it hesitatingly. But I am exceedingly glad I did — unlike with go, every day I used Rust I came to appreciate its design more and more. Features of the language seem to have been designed to coordinate and work with one-another, instead of all being bolted on separately without regard to how they'd interact.

On top of that, Rust has some of the most friendly, dedicated, and talented developer community I've ever seen.

[zellyn]

Aside from the occasional partially misquoted and much-publicized opinionated statement from Go Team members, Go also has some of the most friendly, dedicated, and talented developer community I've ever seen.

I'm more than fine with people preferring Rust. I'm fine with Go's choices rubbing people the wrong way. But the frequent caricature of the Go Team being condescending or clueless simply rings false to anyone who has enjoyed being part of the Go community, where kindness and ability abound.

I'm always curious about the frequent ravings about how friendly the Rust community is. I'm super glad, and I love seeing (hearing) the reports from the Increasing Rust's Reach program on the New Rustacean podcast, for example. I'm glad Rust is so welcoming and friendly.

But I guess for this (increasingly) greybeard, it's funny, because the whole thing seems so cyclical: the Ruby community back in the PragProg-induced-popularity days, and the Perl community back in the pre-Perl6 days had a similarly lovely feel (minus the more recent but oh-so-welcome proactive diversity bent).

Anyways, enough ramblings. I'm glad Rust fits so well for you. I keep meaning to learn it properly by porting an Apple II emulator or something, but… time :-)