I know I'm running the risk, but for my curiosity what makes Rust more developer friendly in your mind?

I have seen my fair share of golang panics in the Kubernetes ecosystem, but I can't recall very many memory corruption issues that would warrant porting off of golang

Not having a culture anti-language design, that praises lack of features, only to get them several years later, partly broken, as they have to accommodate into what exists, instead of designing them from the beginning.

In Go circles even a language like Java is considered PhD skill level programming languages, it is sooo hard.

Pascal and C like enumerations require a kludge with iota and const, dependencies was an whole show between community and Google, generics took their sweet time and the implementation has a few gotchas , makes direct references to git repos for packages and requires tricks with HTML meta headers to redirect requests, if != err boilerplate,...

Had it not been for Docker and Kubernetes adoption success, it might have not taken off.