[thesuperbigfrog]

>> I've found golang is significantly simpler to get up to speed on from a c-family based education (c/c++/java) so I'm curious if these teams were both proficient before starting the projects.

Coming from a similar background, I have found Golang to be a nice, more efficient replacement for Java because it works great for backend web services, middleware, etc. Go is easy to learn and brings most of what is needed in its standard library (similar to Java).

Rust's sweet spot is where C and C++ shine: performance critical, maximum efficency required software such as operating system components, device drivers, media applications, etc.

Rust does have a learning curve, but most of what it enforces are best practices: 1) multiple readers or one writer resource usage, 2) organizing code hierarchy into trees, 3) sane patterns for concurrency, etc.