Why are we still talking about this? Every language that's vaguely close to a multi-purpose language is a competitor with every other language. There are peopl

Why are we still talking about this? Every language that's vaguely close to a multi-purpose language is a competitor with every other language. There are people who write websites in X86 assembler and people who write embedded systems in Python. Rust and Go are competitors. Yes, they were intended for different things, but who cares? Any reasonable metric of language success is going to show one language pulling numbers from the other. Pick your metric: users? There are plenty of people who aren't using Rust because they're using Go, and vice-versa. Successful projects? There are plenty of projects which aren't being written in Go because they're being written in Rust, and vice-versa. Reliability and safety? Maybe Go would have a reasonable type system if Rust hadn't snapped up so many of the good thinkers in that field. Arguing about whether languages are competing based on what they were intended for is a pointless argument: there's no metric for success, no way to validate who's right or wrong. Are we really going to spend time arguing over what Google devs meant when they used the word "systems"? Seriously?