This is very true. I recently ported large portions of Go code to Rust, and while it was somewhat of a steep learning curve and a fight with the compiler, in th

This is very true. I recently ported large portions of Go code to Rust, and while it was somewhat of a steep learning curve and a fight with the compiler, in the end I felt very comfortable that the result is correct, fast, and had good abstractions. Go was so "easy" that I was immediately productive, but this resulted in often suboptimal and messy code that I had to refactor over and over again due to concurrency, abstraction, or performance issues. True productivity is hard to measure.