a significantly more complex Go, without sufficiently-better perf or usage locations, yea. it'd likely have died rather quickly. the lack of a runtime means i

a significantly more complex Go, without sufficiently-better perf or usage locations, yea. it'd likely have died rather quickly. the lack of a runtime means it can go a lot of places Go cannot, e.g. other languages can use rust's build artifacts easily and safely with roughly as much performance as is possible. Go is a dead end in that sense.