Comment by DeathArrow

>Go developers don’t usually come to Rust because Go is “too slow.” For most backend workloads, Go is plenty fast. People are generally a bit frustrated with Go’s verbose error handling, the danger of segmentation faults from nil pointers, and the lack of generics (for a long time) or any sophisticated type system features, such as enums or traits. Interfaces are not a worthy replacement for traits, and the Go standard library has some weird gaps, such as the lack of a Set type. (The idiomatic workaround is map[T]struct{}, which works fine in practice but is a tell that the type system isn’t quite carrying its weight.)

If those are issues, I rather use C#/.NET than expose both developers and AI agents to a cognitive overload.

However, those are not big issues to me, and at least in the present day, Go seems to excel at the things it is supposed to: backend and microservices. Sure, you can find some small issues with Go if you are really nitpicking, but you can find bigger issues with other languages. Sure, Go is boring as f..k, but I don't care and the agents don't mind, they love Go. Most people prefer reading Go than reading Rust. Go allows a fast way to production and for many startups and small companies, that matters a lot.

I don't hate Rust, and even use it - for where I think it makes sense, but for backend and microservices, Go seems a better fit.

As always, this is an opinion, derived from my personal experience, take it with a grain of salt, your experience might be different.