[jatone]

all the issues you mention for go literally plague every other language out there except for a very small minority. of which rust is one. its a fair criticism but you're completely disregarding the downside around development speed.

I've used both languages extensively. I like both languages. I still reach for golang first because its faster to develop with simply due to the compile times.

[coxley]

+1. Used Go, Python, React, etc extensively for years at Facebook. The massive Go projects were easiest to extend, operate, and on-board people to.

Rust vs Go discussions are pretty silly. More folks should think of Rust + Go. There are a lot of glue-services that can take the trade-off of a GC, be magnitudes better than Python, and be maintained by a short-staffed team.

Plus, Rust is still plagued by Python (and others) Async problem — it's easy to accidentally block the event loop. When you have a ton of tiny glue services, esp. if one has a lot of contributors / internal libs, it's an easy mistake. Critical path things are worth the attention to detail. Others... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯