That makes a lot of sense to me; Rust is a much more ambitious and interesting - from a programming language point of view - project than Go. I think that it as

That makes a lot of sense to me; Rust is a much more ambitious and interesting - from a programming language point of view - project than Go. I think that it as a language would appeal much more to the prototypical "language geek" (or at least the impression that I have of such people, including myself). That's not to slam Rust for being "over-complex"/"ivory tower", or slam Go for being "simplistic". But Rust tries to solve such a hard problem - be expressive without any unnecessary overhead, retain memory safety - that it seems to naturally lead to a design and language that appeals to people that are interested in programming languages "for their own sake". Meanwhile Go tries to be sufficiently expressive and then get out of your way to solve whatever problem in whatever domain that you're trying to solve.