I think the selling points with Go are: 1. Cross-platform 2. Fairly mature ecosystem 3. Pretty easy to pick up coming from either a dynamic or static language

I think the selling points with Go are: 1. Cross-platform 2. Fairly mature ecosystem 3. Pretty easy to pick up coming from either a dynamic or static language background 4. Somewhat simpler approach to concurrency (although I've created my share of race conditions) 5. Backed and used by Google (if that is positive for you as a developer) 6. Is a pretty good multi-purpose language I think in comparison to (my limited understanding of) Rust, Go is beginner friendly. Also, I think Rust has most of the above covered as well, but it seems like there are lower level primitives with functional aspects built-in. Haven't needed these in Go, so haven't investigated them there.