Go and FreeBSD share the similarity of a large base system that’s useful out of the box: in go the runtime and large, useful stdlin, in FreeBSD the base system

Go and FreeBSD share the similarity of a large base system that’s useful out of the box: in go the runtime and large, useful stdlin, in FreeBSD the base system composed of the kernel and standard programs. Both also encourage a certain cultural aesthetics around that base of accepting and going with the flow of the base’s limitations. For FreeBSD, things like composing posixly-correct sh scripts, BSD Makefile stuff. For Go, boilerplate, if err != nil, for a long time “you don’t need generics”. In contrast, Linux and Rust are both smaller core systems with more exposed complexity, but also require a large user space to make the core useful. Linux is just a kernel so you gotta bring everything else in the OS. Rust you need libraries for things most other languages (including Go) include, like regex, async, etc. However both Linux and Rust have a culture of adapting the system to work exactly how you like, in Linux again you bring everything you want - want systemd? Cool. Don’t want systemd, that’s cool too. In rust, people go absolutely crazy with macros and abstractions and likely it will still be plenty fast at runtime.