Novice programmers will take longer to be productive in Rust compared to Go. Rust primarily improves the productivity of people who know what they are doing, be

Novice programmers will take longer to be productive in Rust compared to Go. Rust primarily improves the productivity of people who know what they are doing, because it gives them much better tools to manage complexity. Games are written in C++ because game engines and tooling have person-centuries of work poured into them. Reimplementing Unreal Engine in Rust would require another few person-centuries of work, which is an investment that doesn't really make sense. Economically, dealing with the shortcomings of C++ is much, much cheaper. But Rust is definitely encroaching in all of these areas. Embedded Rust is doing great, scientific Rust is getting there (check pola.rs). Rust is an obvious candidate for the next big game engine, and it is already quite viable for indie undertakings, though it is still early days.