Yeah, I know, shocking. I don't know Rust, I've just read the book before and played around with it a little. So using C or C++ would have been a more natural

Yeah, I know, shocking. I don't know Rust, I've just read the book before and played around with it a little. So using C or C++ would have been a more natural choice - but I like having an opportunity to add another tool to my belt. Compared to learning Go it's been a slog.