I was a Go engineer for years and have shipped a lot of Go. I never properly learned Rust.

Over the past year I've been using AI to write small Rust tools for myself — I barely read the code, and honestly it just works.

But for serious projects I expect to maintain long-term, I still pick Go. Today I want code I can actually own and reason about myself.

Give it a year or two and I probably won't be writing code by hand at all. Once the AI owns the code anyway, that reason disappears — and at that point Rust's guarantees win. So I suspect I'll end up leaning Rust.