This seems to be fairly similar to Go. Given I don't know too much about either, what are the major differences?
*Have you seen this Google language, Go? How does Rust compare?*
Yes.
Rust development was several years underway before Go
launched, no direct inspiration.
Though Pike’s previous languages in the Go family
(Newsqueak, Alef, Limbo) were influential.
Go adopted semantics (safety and memory model) that
are quite unsatisfactory.
- Shared mutable state.
- Global GC.
- Null pointers.
- No RAII or destructors.
- No type-parametric user code.
There are a number of other fine coroutine / actor
languages in development presently. It’s an area of
focus across the PL community.
tl;dr, Rust seems to not ignore the last 20 or 30 years of computer science.