> My issue with Go is that it's not low level enough to be good for systems programming but it's not high level enough to avoid boilerplate.

That's really interesting because in general I find Go faster to work in than Python. Python has great flexibility but even production code I read is littered with noise that I don't see with Go applications. Other than error propagation - which is more a style choice than boilerplate - I find doing something in Go results in fewer lines of code and less spaghetti logic.

I'm a bit too dug in on Rust to spend a ton of time replacing it with Zig and my use cases frankly could be handled by a Go app without much worry about performance. But one thing Rust has is boilerplate out the wazoo.