Go 1.0 is 4 years old now, after 5 years working on developing what is essentially and was always "C with garbage collection and threading". Rust is a year old,

Go 1.0 is 4 years old now, after 5 years working on developing what is essentially and was always "C with garbage collection and threading". Rust is a year old, after 6 years of research building something novel outside of academic languages, with the final shape of the language heavily changing in the last year. Rust also doesn't ship with an extensive standard library including nearly all the things you'd want to make a basic web app. Basically - Go had a very strong focus on web servers from the start, making it easy to pick up and develop web servers with. Web developers make good early adopters - they'll pick up new tools faster than almost any other group of developers. Rust was released without any of those tools, and they're still changing as the ecosystem develops (especially around async frameworks). And even with that, there's a fair few companies using it for all sorts of cool things: https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html