A very good point about rust (and c++ and c) being used outside embedded and systems. That's fair. But when people do that, they do it for performance, and go is easily 5x slower in my experience. It feels faster than java because the lower latency makes it feel more responsive, but its takes half again as long to finish the same tasks. And c# absolutely blows its doors off, closer to twice as long as c#. And c# feels responsive as well. And don't all those languages make the same safety guarantees as go?

About detecting footguns, I was honestly asking, I thought maybe you could have a borrow checker, but none of the zero cost abstractions that rust uses to make it mostly tolerable. I'm not saying I want to use that language, but I do like explicit languages if they aren't too verbose. Go is a good example of that I think, until you get into the abstractions around parallelism.