I agree with the author that some Rust zealots are overdoing it and don't do their community a huge favour, they were one among several reasons why I chose Go i

I agree with the author that some Rust zealots are overdoing it and don't do their community a huge favour, they were one among several reasons why I chose Go instead of Rust for a larger project I'm working on. It's especially annoying to talk to the fanatics when you know Ada fairly well. (Most of them seem to come primarily from C++...?) Like the article suggests and was stated numerous times, Rust and Go are not competing languages, they have different use cases. Rust is a good choice if you want to write a rock solid and secure library to replace a C++ library, or instead of writing it in C++ in first place. Go is a good language if you want to write a web service and want to rely on many existing libraries to cut down development time. Both are great languages if you know them intimately as an expert and are deeply familiar with the common frameworks. Almost every language is great in that case. However, for my use cases Rust would be a bad choice. Relying on GC is not only perfectly fine for my performance requirements, it also makes life much easier. Personally, I think that both Rust and Go are a step back when we're talking about pure language features. They are both needlessly and artificially restrictive in comparison to good old languages like Ada and CL. But in the end, the frameworks and 3rd party libraries are more important anyway.