Comment by weberc2

The great thing about Go is that you don't need to think about allocations or lifetimes until you care about performance. Memory management is optimization in Go, while in C, C++, Rust, etc it's required to get a program to compile (of course you can "opt in" to easy memory management in those languages by using some kind of GC library, this is vanishingly rare--presumably developers would rather just use a language that was designed for GC). If you're at the point where your Go code is so performance sensitive that you're optimizing memory more often than not, it probably makes sense to be using Rust, but these cases are rare for the kinds of applications I tend to write (which is sad because I actually really enjoy using Rust).