[jokethrowaway]

I tried learning go a few times years ago but got stuck with tooling issues and when I made it to work I was put off by the syntax / verbosity, error messages and never managed to learn it.

I started doing a project in rust and things just made a lot of sense (with previous haskell, C/C++, JS experience), fixing compiler errors until green was easy. Eventually I developed an understanding for fixing lifetime related issues, which is the only complicated bit in rust (and hard to fix ones are not even that common).

I'm definitely more confident in the correctness of my programs written in rust than anything else - even than haskell, my previous gold standard experience, given the lack of GC and laziness.

I think different people will grok different languages.

From a maintainability point of view, from what I experienced in a few companies, most developers will not feel comfortable with either go or rust.