Whenever I see comparisons between Rust and Go, I'm always reminded of fasterthanlime's I want off Mr Golang's wild ride [0] as well as its sequel Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang [1].

Having used both, Go hides its complexity behind the veneer of simplicity while being more tedious and error prone as the codebase grows while Rust brings the complexity to you upfront while preventing errors later. Personally, even simply due to language features like algebraic data types in other languages, I really have no reason to use Go anymore. There's an oft-said quip that says that the Go language designers took the last 50 years of programming language theory and simply...threw it away.

Plus, to those saying it's easier to hack stuff together in other languages than Rust, I simply clone everywhere and Rust then becomes the same as a garbage collected language. You don't have to deal with lifetimes and excessive cloning from the get go, deal with that after experimenting then optimize, same as you would for any other language. The plethora of language features in Rust make it easier to hack around in, in actuality.

[0] https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-...

[1] https://fasterthanli.me/articles/lies-we-tell-ourselves-to-k...