Rust has a pretty great community, and I don't think you need corporate backing for a community. I'm just stressing it's one of the most (if not the most) impor

Rust has a pretty great community, and I don't think you need corporate backing for a community. I'm just stressing it's one of the most (if not the most) important aspects of a language. I will say Rust it isn't nearly as easy to enter as Go, that should be somewhat expected by their desired feature set. Likewise, they aren't as concerned with the cost of features as Go is. I would somewhat agree with the GC stuff, I think having a couple more levers there with sensible defaults is probably ideal.