Why not Java, Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, C#, F#, OCaml, CL, Scheme, Haskell, or any other efficient GC language? Its funny to compare Rust, whose sole purpose was

Why not Java, Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, C#, F#, OCaml, CL, Scheme, Haskell, or any other efficient GC language? Its funny to compare Rust, whose sole purpose was to enable garbage collector free semantics, designed to reimplement an efficient and small memory web browser to languages with a GC. Go is great, because compared to most other GC languages, it has small self contained binaries and comes with a great toolchain. Its AOT is better then C# and Java, and bundles its runtime with every app. It's not great, because people would really just want a more expressive language that had those same qualities. That's why there's effort for Kotlin native and Scala native. If anything, the fact that some people are thinking to pick Rust over Go is a testament to Rust. Rust should have nothing of interest over Go, except for no GC. But apparently, even with the added complexity of a borrow checker, it has enough to entice people from GC languages.