Looking back at the project, knowing what you know now, if you were to start again (but without obtained rust skills), would you go with rust again or pick another toolbox?
Absolutely. Even aside from safety, rust has so many quality of life improvements over C++ - algebraic data types, pattern matching, checked errors instead of exceptions, sane standard library, easy packaging, readable error messages, #[must_use], immutable utf8 strings, traits instead of templates, hygienic macros etc.
Other than compile times and editor tooling, which are being actively worked on, the only real pain point I can think of is the poor support for custom allocators.
As for other alternatives, I don't personally have strong opinions on go but I think it's notable that none of the ex-cockroachdb folks at materialize suggested using it instead of rust.
