AFAICT This is a "GO is great" article not "GO Vs. Rust" article as the title suggests.

It is OK to love and propmote a language. GO is terrific and we have been waiting for it for a long time.

But so is Rust.

If you want to say GO is better choice than Rust ("Why GO and not Rust" is the title after all) listing featurs of Rust ("...Go doesn’t want unused variables or imports...") is not a convincing way to proceed.

Horses for courses and we should have stopped language wars in 1995!