Rust compiles way slower in my experience. This is a major problem because ais need to recompile many times especially when it keeps running into borrow checker problems.

With golang, all borrow checker problems go away. This is a good trade off if your app is not cpu-bound, which most are not. If you need every last drop of performance then rust is a better choice of course.

However, I have run into a few cases of runtime null crashes in go.

> and "cargo check" can catch compile issues without a full build.

You only have to compile when you actually want to test the behavior, which tends to be right on the first try more often as a result of the strict compiler.