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Rust was very much half-baked in 2014. Version 1.0 was released in 2015, and critical features for dev UX like non-lexical lifetimes or async weren't supported at all until late 2018. In fact, Rust would've been a terrible choice back then. Lots of people seem to miss that, but it's also why this whole anti-Golang flamewar is so pointless: a lot of the Golang stuff out there is not greenfield, but was written back when there was hardly any reasonable alternative to it, and certainly nothing like modern Rust was available.