Any form of surveillance used by any government will be used primarily for political reasons, against non-criminals. There is no such thing as Good Spyware.
Performance metrics generally put Rust squarely ahead of Go, but not by a lot.
10x, 4x and 3x performance difference is not "but not by a lot", it is al lot! :D
Imagine needing 1 server vs 10 servers to run same app. Same for memory.
Can people stop contradicting themselves when comparing X with Rust just to make X look less horrible, please!
"3 billion" devices with multiple vulnerabilities that sound like RCE via things like video playback with "fixing them requires a long chain of communication between many vendors, manufacturers and resellers" sounds like a total disaster to me. Many (most?) Android phones in use will never see an update!
It is worse than that. Organisations are structured to make accounting easier. Software is architected by accountants.