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The type system of rust makes doing some "dumb" things impossible.

The type system of go makes doing some "smart" things impossible.

The choice comes down to whether or not you view depending on the expertise of your employees as a liability or an asset.

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That's an interesting point of view. I don't have pleasant memories of deciphering third-party macro and templates in a previous consulting contract.

Pretty sure my client wasn't delighted either in having to pay expensive extra hours for me to cleanup the project.

Beyond a certain scale there are by definition no good programmers or bad programmers, there are only average programmers. So it seems pretty clear to me that depending on them to be experts is a losing proposition.

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