rust is just massively promoted

go is a project that google funded in order to get better bang per buck for their internal dev shop that was previously using C++, and Rob Pike (plan nine and newsqueak and unix doc writer) and Ken Thompson (inventor of B, the predecessor of C) and Richard Griesemer (who built the chrome javascript engine to reduce their training costs and maintenance costs and shorten the edit/test cycle

they never bothered to advertise it very much

you can look up the history of rust, it is not as notable or effective, just a gigaton of bullshit shilling everywhere 

 Is Go used for IoT or single board hobbyists? These are the touch points that have gotten me interested in coding - gadgets live in my head but I want them in the world. 

 there is a variant called "tinygo" which has almost the same syntax but a few different elements... from what i gather of the embedded programming scene though, you are better off with C overall... C gives you absolute control, at the cost of absolute accountability