[jvanderbot]

You've described Rust's niche circumspectly: Systems, which have strict requirements and are fragile minefields.

The performance benefits of Rust were supposed to be a non-penalty: "Look, you can please please use this where you'd use C or C++ I promise it won't impact your performance!" Performance and GC overhead was the rejection de jure of every other C replacement.

But here we are: All friends are javascript front-enders-turned-backenders and are wondering if they should pick up Rust. It fits into a pattern of "new shiny" but it's good, don't get me wrong, if everyone experiences compiled languages and starts writing their headless code in sensible languages.

Repeating myself, but I'm just wondering why not Go? Why now?