Why Go and Not Rust?
Not disagreeing with the sentiment, but I dislike the word &quot;simple&quot; used to describe languages, because it has two meanings: simple = &quot;consists of few parts&quot; and simple = &quot;easy to use&quot;, and these are <i>not</i> the same.<p>Certain things in Go are <i>not easy</i> (not simple), because Go has <i>few language features</i> (is simple).<p>Go has definitely a lower barrier to entry and is very productive for certain size and complexity of a project. However, as you start pushing beyond &quot;scale&quot; Go is designed for, Go becomes less simple to use. To appreciate things like generics, non-nullable types, no shared mutable state, you have to be working on a problem that requires these things, and only then these extra features pay off and make development and maintenance easier.