As a Go fan, I must say a your assessment was very fair. I don’t see myself using Rust even if it is a language with many clear advantages. Primarily because I place such high value on simplicity and compilation time.

However if I was building a really critical system, like day a Mars rover or something, then I would have considered it.

I am exploring Zig though as a step between Go and Rust. Harder to learn than Go but probably easier than Rust, while being more type safe than Go. No null values e.g.