Because we have weird memories we all still remember Go claiming to be a systems programming language, which everyone took to mean &quot;programming language you would use when you need to talk to metal&quot; but which A) Go isn&#x27;t suited for B)Rob Pike decided meant &quot;programming language you would use to when you need to write a program&quot;<p>Rust sort of went public around the same time as Go which automatically &quot;made it&quot; a competitor AND actually is a programming language you would use when you need to talk to metal.<p>So now people have tied them up in a PR battle.