I have recently started to port a large codebase from Go to Rust. I thought it was going to take more code in Rust, but I have been surprised at how much less code it takes. As of right now, the Rust version is 60% smaller in terms of LOC.

I think a large part of this is due to error handling in Rust and the sugary `?` syntax which is so incredibly useful.. I can't count how many times I have done the following in go

x, err := Foo()

if err != nil { return nil, err } // or something like this

I'm pretty sure a large chunk of the LOC reduction was in that alone. Though, a large chunk is also some crates that make a lot of boilerplate go away (serde, serde_json, etc).