People who think Rust is "complex" and "boilerplate-heavy" have never had to deal with C++, or heck, even Java. (Though I'd guess we would actually find plenty

People who think Rust is "complex" and "boilerplate-heavy" have never had to deal with C++, or heck, even Java. (Though I'd guess we would actually find plenty of C++/Java code within Google itself.) The only reason one could fairly give for that sort of statement is that Rust - the language itself, not just the ecosystem! - is still quite far from mature. But it's going to have a great future once some of the "tweaks" that are in the pipeline right now reach stability. Async is one of those of course, but there are more. Edit: And to be clear, I'm not a Go-hater! In fact, Go comes out-of-the-box with a very nice, high-performance concurrent GC that makes it highly appropriate for some scenarios where Rust would not be a good fit at all.