> Rust is overhyped
People are excited about Rust! Not sure why this is a reason you _shouldn't_ use the language.
> Rust projects decay
The text doesn't match the headline here; Rust takes backwards compatibility very seriously, and rust code I wrote in 2016 against Rust 1.10 still compiles with Rust 1.72 in 2023.
> Rust is still in beta
Mentions missing async traits, which is legitimately annoying, but the workaround with the async_trait crate works in practice
> The standard library is anemic
This is a tradeoff; big standard libraries become graveyards over time (the classic article on this: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2012/04/where-modules-go-to-di...). How long was Python stuck with a terrible HTTP client because that was the one in the standard library? In Rust we have an incredible, state of the art regex library because it's a separate crate and is allowed to evolve.
> async is hard
Rust's async is hard to get started with; it's a barrier to get over like learning the borrow checker and lifetime system. But once you do I've found it productive and incredibly performant.
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Overall, I don't think that Rust is the right solution to all problems. Rust makes you think about everything you're doing, the ways in which your programs use resources, and every possible class of errors. This is incredibly useful for writing fast and correct software, but will be overhead for people who just want to move fast.
I also think that static memory management is not the right tradeoff for most application software, although a GC language with Rust's ergonomics and crate ecosystem would be amazing for those use cases.
I'd personally always choose Java over Go especially given recent developments like ZGC, GraalVM, and Project Loom which essentially makes Java a better Go.