If you're focusing on safety guarantees, sure. If you measure by safety checks included by default instead, it actually has more safety checks than Go (in particular, safety checked numeric operations for overflow).
The other big thing that makes it spiritually like Go is that you follow the same pattern of: allocate resource, immediately defer deallocation.
The other big thing that makes it spiritually like Go is that you follow the same pattern of: allocate resource, immediately defer deallocation.