Memory management is hard. Thread safety is hard. Go (and Java, Python, …) pushes the complexity of the former to a GC, which has its own drawbacks. Few popular

Memory management is hard. Thread safety is hard. Go (and Java, Python, …) pushes the complexity of the former to a GC, which has its own drawbacks. Few popular languages actually tackle the latter - most languages have safety problems there such as race conditions (in Go, Python, Java, etc.) This is not to deny that Rust also has other sources of complexity. But, most of Rust’s complexity can be traced to its fundamental goals of safety and performance. If you’re willing to sacrifice one of those, there are much simpler and easier languages to use.