IMHO it's at least somewhat better than "modern" C++ where you end up having to wrap virtually every single thing in some kind of template class, and that's wit

IMHO it's at least somewhat better than "modern" C++ where you end up having to wrap virtually every single thing in some kind of template class, and that's without the benefit of much stronger memory and thread safety. Overall I think Rust is a hands-down win over C and C++. People who want it to be like Go are probably not doing systems-level programming, which is what Rust is for, and I have severe doubts about whether a rich systems-level language could be made much simpler than Rust and still deliver what Rust delivers. If you want full control, manual memory management with safety, other safety guarantees, a rich type system, high performance, and the ability to target small embedded use cases, there is a certain floor of essential complexity that is just there and can't really be worked around. Your type system is going to be chonky because that's the only way to get the compiler to do a bunch of stuff at compile time that would otherwise have to be done at runtime with a fat runtime VM like Go, Java, C#.NET, etc. have. Go requires a fat runtime and has a lot of limitations that really hurt when writing certain kinds of things like high performance codecs, etc. It's outstanding for CRUD, web apps, and normal apps, and I really wish it had a great GUI story since Go would be a fantastic language to write normal level desktop and mobile UI apps.