alt Hacker NewsGo missed a big opportunity to be Rust when we needed Rust more than anything. I have long since moved on from Go and C#/.NET is widely available nowadays and in many respects less held back by some strange political choices when it comes to DevEx (I am of course talking about generics).
Rust is the older project of the two, kicking off in 2006. Go, which set sail in 2007, duplicating the work of Rust would have been pointless. We already had Rust.
Go's objective was to become a faster Python. Which was something we also desperately needed at the time, and it has well succeeded on that front. Go has largely replaced all the non-data science things people were earlier doing with Python.