[konad]

I think the fact that Rust is older and yet Go has 1000s of active programmers is indicative of something. "Ship early, ship often" springs to mind. The Plan9 community has been working like that for years, almost every day an updated version is available (the distro cdrom is rebuilt every night) with bug fixes / improvements / new stuff.

[hga]

Go is the product of people who's work automatically gets attention and is backed by Google. You still might be right, but Go is probably not a useful example.