> if rust could compile within 5-10x the time go does, it would be much more pleasant to work with

As someone who's been around Rust for a long time but writes very little code in the language, I'm looking towards the MIR work and language services effort to improve this. The language is reasonable to work with once you're over the learning curve and you can mentally visualize the allocations/pointers/borrows moving around but the learning curve is really hard. Having a faster feedback loop on a higher information density interface than console text (I have a dream of dynamic borrow/lifetime overlays) to act as an extended tutorial would go a very long way.