> while Go is more of a successor to Java.

In what sense?

garbage collected, the usecases I see it, generally being used to write network services

don't forget generics added a decade after language inception in both cases

They're both blub languages, designed to be simple and boring but with lots of grafted-on cruft from the designers not realizing that complexity is a waterbed.

Please do not compare rust to C++, that is an insult to C++

Seriously? I love C++ and barely use Rust, but they both seem like pretty good languages to me.

In my experience, C++ is by far the most common language Rust is compared to. Rust will never stop being compared to C++.