Another anecdote: I learn new languages all the time. I make it a personal goal to never let not knowing a language get in the way of what I do. Rust was one

Another anecdote: I learn new languages all the time. I make it a personal goal to never let not knowing a language get in the way of what I do. Rust was one of the easiest I've ever picked up. There is a ton of good information, examples, books, and tooling out there that helps me. On the other hand I've had to pick up Go several times in the past. It's never stuck. Basically every project I have seen written in it is convoluted and just messed up to read and interact with. People ALWAYS overstate the effort that Rust takes. There are a lot of spots that you can get messed up on. But not all of us are out here writing code that hits these things. People act like the existence of lifetimes means you have to write them everywhere and think about it. That's not the case for almost any of us.