This resonates with me too. I’ve written some Rust and a lot of Go. I find Rust syntax distastefully ugly, and the sluggish compilation speed doesn’t bring me any joy.

On top of that, Go has pretty much replaced my Python usage for scripting since it’s cheap to generate code and let the compiler catch obvious issues. Iteration in Rust is a lot slower, even with LLMs.

I get fasterthanlime’s rant against Go, but none of those criticisms apply to me. I write distributed-systems code for work where Go absolutely shines. I need fast compilation, self-contained binaries, and easy concurrency support. Also, the garbage collector lets me ignore things I genuinely couldn’t care less about - stuff Rust is generally good at. So choosing Go instead of Rust was kinda easy.