&gt; I never understood the Rust-Go comparisons<p>Historical accident: they started surfacing around the same time, Go was originally described as a systems language (which it never was according to the usual meaning of the term) and Rust had more application-level features (built-in &quot;GC pointer&quot;, green threads). As incorrect as it was, the initial… impression? — it&#x27;s probably the wrong term but I don&#x27;t have a better one — remained.<p>Probably doesn&#x27;t help that Rust also has a number of features Go is criticised for lacking (generics, non-nullable references, immutability support, …)