[baby]

I have a similar experience. Used to write a lot of golang, and now I write a lot of Rust. I think I would have pointed out the same issues: auditing Golang network code you can often find easy DoS attacks due to nil values being dereferences (protobuf I’m looking at you), there’s no sum types or enums, etc. Still though, I miss how easy it is to read golang and ramp up on a codebase. Even today I sometimes come across a golang codebase and look for something and I can always easily follow the code. Eventhough I’ve written a lot of Rust, it’s always challenging to ramp up on a Rust codebase, and the language is often abused because it’s too expressive. I’d still say Rust is so much more pleasant to write due to that expressiveness. It really is a double edge sword.

[seer-zig]

It shouldn't be a Rust vs golang. golang is mostly a somewhat better python, and mostly for writing backend services.

You can compare its domain (to a certain degree) to Java or C#, in which case the latter two are superior due to the reasons mentioned previously (enums, pattern matching, etc.).

[Tozen]

Agree, about the "us vs them" mentality. The tribalism has gotten out of hand, though I kind of suspect some of it is corporate interests being behind it to push the illusion its a "winner take all" game and "putting the batteries in the backs" of many of the evangelists.

[bayindirh]

It feels like the language wars of 90s and 00s all over again, and I personally don't want to go through that cycle again.

I don't want to take sides, I want to enjoy programming and learning, that's all. When zealots zeal, kinder people either leave or go underground.