When MIG was started, in the summer of 2013, Rust was still too unstable to be a good candidate. Go, however, already had the toolkit to build cross-platform ag

When MIG was started, in the summer of 2013, Rust was still too unstable to be a good candidate. Go, however, already had the toolkit to build cross-platform agents, so I went with this. 18 months in, I still think it was the right choice. Go is extremely powerful and yet simple enough for contributors to pick it up in a matter of days. I don't think we could have delivered as much value going with Rust, it's still too young and lack the necessary libraries (AMQP, OpenPGP, etc...).