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The main reason is that Rust is the first new systems language in a long time. That no big players owned it helped as well.

Go and C# are not systems languages. Maybe a stretch goal at best.



Go is not a systems language? What is it then? General purpose language?


Yes, it is a general purpose language. It's original motivation (and main strengths) come from system networking domains, but it is way more high-level and easier than rust to build general things.




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