[skymuse]

1) How long did it take to become proficient in Rust compared to Golang?

A long time, probably a couple months to get productive, and a couple more to learn the foundation pretty well. And this is with a steady supply of side projects to help me solidify my learnings.

2) Which did you learn to appreciate over time over the other, if at all?

I chose Rust over Go because for my side projects (at the time) Rust was faster and had a better package manager. Since most of my side projects are command line tools, Rust fit in quite well in this domain.

A side note. I think it's more helpful to choose a language based on how well it solves your problems rather than its amount of shortcomings. If Go has the right packages and tools, go with that. If Rust does, choose that one instead. For me, the ability to quickly pick up the best language for the job is IMO more valuable than picking a language with less 'edge cases'.

[poletopole]

Solid advance. I chose to learn Rust in depth first because I read (and have seen) that it's the language of choice for working with WASM, which is what I'll be doing. Cargo also seemed to be universally well received from what I read about it compared to Golang's package management. Ultimately I see myself using both Rust and Golang, but perhaps just Rust until Golang 2 is stable, since I won't even need it for another year perhaps.