Rust was initially released July 7, 2010, Go was released around November 10, 2009, so if we are just looking at that they are actually on roughly equal footing. My understanding is Rust and Go are for mostly different purposes though depending on what your goals are as a dev, like Rust is more for systems level programming whereas Go is for developing portable application binaries with a focus on performance.
Rust was beta for many years and started becoming mainstream only 2-5 years ago. Go was in production almost its entire existence, it's specifically a simplified language.
Thanks for the additional background info, I stand corrected.
Go has always embraced a philosophy of not being on the leading edge
Yeah I guess calling it that was a foot-in-mouth moment.
I think “bleeding edge” is measured more by mind share than by release date. For example, Ruby was already 9 years old when Rails came out in 2004. That was when it became bleeding edge.
Don’t feel that way—You made people think about the life cycle of languages and it fostered some interesting discussion. That’s what we’re all about here, so you did good :)