Agreed. It's unfortunate that Go and Rust are frequently compared to each other, they're not really trying to solve the same problems, they just happened to be

Agreed. It's unfortunate that Go and Rust are frequently compared to each other, they're not really trying to solve the same problems, they just happened to be modern, hyped, backend languages. I don't blame this post really, it's trying to correct that belief in a way. Rust is roughly a modern C replacement, while Go is a modern Java replacement. (very roughly)