I was focusing on single threaded safety really. I do know that data races can't be prevented by a GC, but having to only worry about data races and not the reg

I was focusing on single threaded safety really. I do know that data races can't be prevented by a GC, but having to only worry about data races and not the regular memory safety bugs was quite nice. <3 Go's race detector (also the deadlock debugging support). Used it quite often though I didn't hit it much. Agreed, none of this is a problem with Rust :)