Personally I find Rust to be a much higher level language than Go, though I understand this is a bit of a weird case since it also involves manual memory manage

Personally I find Rust to be a much higher level language than Go, though I understand this is a bit of a weird case since it also involves manual memory management to some degree. In terms of “feeling”, Go feels like a polished form of C to me. Rust doesn’t feel like C++ to me — it actually feels much more like OCaml and even Haskell. Though Haskel no doubt has a more sophisticated type system, I still find that a shocking number of design practices that I used in Haskell port naturally to Rust.