I think it's a breath of opportunity to hear that there is tooling for Rust to write Kubernetes operators, previously my impression is that there is no match for Golang when it comes to writing operators, and that has invited me to try and learn Golang and the codegen that comes with writing operators, but I never enjoyed trying to learn things about Golang, the language feels like an exercise in ambiguous minimalism to me personally.

Have you tried using kube-rs? It removes many of the sharp edges of client-go, and is a pleasure to with with. It also has much tighter dependency discipline than the Go library.

There are other reasons to prefer Rust (sum types just to name one) but the quality of the Kubernetes client alone is enough to prefer it over Go in this case.

Nothing! It's just good to see some language diversity here.

Diversity is good.