They're not really the same thing, IMO. Sure, Go is pitched as a systems language, but when Google themselves are rewriting OS components written in Go with Rust, you know something is up. Go seems like Python++... a more reliable and performant high level language. The GC nature makes it inappropriate, IMO, for low-level systems work. Sure, write apps in it. Fine. But I can't see writing drivers in Go.
I’m not writing drivers or OS components. Services and command-line tools. Go has a bunch of stuff in standard library to make that easier. My experience is that these tools are a bit rougher to write in Rust, due to the additional decisions (which third-party libraries) I have to make wrt command line parsing, HTTP, etc. Rust’s ecosystem reminds me a bit of NPM or Haskell in that way. Go reminds me of Python in that the decisions are easier or have lower impact.
