Agreed. It's unfortunate that Go and Rust are frequently compared to each other, they're not really trying to solve the same problems, they just happened to be modern, hyped, backend languages. I don't blame this post really, it's trying to correct that belief in a way. Rust is roughly a modern C replacement, while Go is a modern Java replacement. (very roughly)

it is; it's like comparing Python to C, except it's 2017 instead of 1997.