Original link: InfluxDB v3: Why Rust Beat Go for Time Series Database / TheNewStack.
The article talk a lot about InfluxDB and not so much about Go and Rust.
But half way down they reveal:
As mentioned above, the choice of Rust was driven by architectural considerations rather than limitations in Go. Specifically, the aim was to integrate an off-the-shelf query engine. While many mature engines are written in Java, C or C++, Rust offered better interoperability with C than Go, Dix said. Ultimately, InfluxData incorporated DataFusion into the project, a Rust-based query engine and sub-project of Apache Arrow. Contributions to DataFusion began in 2020, and the team now leads the project, with one of their engineers serving as a PMC member for both Arrow and DataFusion, Dix said.