Go is good for onboarding new devs because it's simple. Our existing PHP devs were taught Go and it was painless. Jumping from PHP straight into Rust would be pretty painful, I think. Finding Rust devs isn't easy in our town.

But I agree with most of the points. You got to be very careful when writing in Go, because there are many gotchas. So many gotchas that I had to write a large document describing all the conventions and rules to remember to write bug-free (hopefully) Go. This "Go with conventions" reminds of the days when you'd try to simulate OOP in C - it works but error-prone.

Many of the problems are caught early with good unit and integration testing, however, just like with scripting languages. In my experience, most of the bugs in production in our Go microservices come from logical mistakes, not from misusing Go.