People don't like being told their beloved language is actually a bad pick for *most* software projects, but it is. Go is faster and safer *overall*. People who actually work in large development shops or manage them understand this. The rest complain. Is the Rust runtime faster? Usually. Do your own research. Look up the stats on the fastest web servers,  results are fluid. Read the followup on the Discord blog about them later moving to Erlang and comparing Go 1.9 (1.14 is current) to most current Rust. I'll take a language created in part by the creators of C and Unix and Unicode over a  can't-make-its-mind up, heavy async/await concurrency, unnecessarily complex, read-only, butt-ugly, trendy language run by a shady "rust is political", NodeJS-y governance team any day. There is always C if I need more. Brian Cantrill, who "knows how to code safe C" agrees C is better for most low-level stuff outside of the application space. I *love* Rust applications like Alacritty and expect a lot of C++ code to be replaced…