Its all very well writing an evidently biased blog as to why Rust is the future. However, the elephant in the room is Rust's sheer complexity. I will give you

Its all very well writing an evidently biased blog as to why Rust is the future. However, the elephant in the room is Rust's sheer complexity. I will give you my anecdotal experience ... About two years ago, I was getting tired of shell scripts. Not because I didn't know how to write them properly, but because it was always invariably a messy kludge of fixes and hacks strung together in a safe(ish) manner. Python, the cool-kid of the day was ruled out. Both for personal reasons (I think the space-sentsive nature of Python is dumb), and for practical reasons (dependencies in python is a mess). So it was between Go and Rust. Both of which could compile into cross-platform dependency-free binaries for ease of distribution around infrastructure. As it happens, I had a Real World (TM) project, and so what better opportunity than to hack together some spaghetti code for a proof of concept. My first call was Rust. I wanted to like Rust, I really did. But I found it simply impenetrable as a language, hard to make progress, even in "spaghetti" mode. "The book" was well written, but it was hard to translate it into "real world". I also disliked the "everything is a dependency" and really felt a lot more should be included in "core". I then went to Go. With Go, I found an approachable language with a more substancial "core" library. The tooling was good (even better with GoLand IDE). And I was able to hack together a not insubstancial "spaghetti" project in less than a week, which then encouraged me to start learning how to tidy it up into something more professional looking. Yes, Go is not perfect, e.g. I particularly dislike the repetitive and verbose error handling ("if err !=nil") and can't help feeling there could be a "better way". But now I've done a number of projects with it, using all sorts of complexities such as cloud and crypto, I feel Go's benefits outweigh any minor disadvantages.