[mvuksano]

> Just pick any news article about any large projects migrating from C/C++ to Go/Rust.

Judging usefulness of a language based on news article doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

> Sure, all FAANGs have been writing most of their core software in these languages, but they've also invested a lot of resources in building alternative languages that were simpler but equally performant/expressive.

Sure they invested in new languages but don't forget they also invest much more in existing ones.