Even though Go appeared earlier than Rust, and Go's creators are much more famous than Rust's, and the corporation behind Go is much more influential than that behind Rust, adoption of Rust is skyrocketing for mission critical systems while (apart from the container ecosystem) Go is much less popular.
No, no, no and no. How on Earth people come to this conclusion? Go is closer to node.js than to Rust. Like, it is not even a competition they are so far apart. One is a “zero-cost abstraction, low-level language”, the other is a “managed language with a GC like million others, which is as badly expressive as C”. To mention some positive as well, virtual threads are cool.
But the two is nothing alike and this sentiment is just utterly stupid and I see it everywhere for God knows why.
1. Because they were first unveiled around the same time, as AOT natively-compiled languages with drastically different takes and directions.
2. Because when the authors of Go first released it, they called it a systems language. By which they meant, unlike anyone else, a language to write systems with. Like… programs.
3. Because when first unveiled, Rust was a very different language, much more similar to Go. It always had a much more functional and type-heavy bent, but it had a runtime and scheduler, userland threads, kinda-sorta a GC in potential (“GC’d pointers” though no GC was ever implemented for real). As noted in (1) it looked a bit on a completely different take on a similar niche. It was brought downstack over time as the community saw its potential as an “innovative” breath of fresh air for low-level uses: higher levels of the stack already had memory-safe and type-heavy programming languages if they wanted those.
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