They are compared by pretty much anyone that has found both to be significant or interesting. People often compare it to C++ because of the theoretical performance capabilities being similar. People often compare it to Go because Go is a simple, popular reference that many people understand, and hence can be compared against in a way that is meaningful to a lot of people. There are a lot of similarities, as well as a lot of differences, making for lively conversations filled with tangents on various preferences and experiences. In short, you can have a good conversation when making such comparisons. You can compare it against tomatoes, too, but the shared ground isn't huge, and analogies must be far more complex to derive meaning, and the participants need far deeper mental stacks to make ANY progress that relates to the original intent when the tangents veer far from the domain of programming language implementation or usage.