I agree. They were very quick to update their website to say "we're making a new thing", but the new thing isn't ready.
I used the metric implementation in Go (as someone with extensive Prometheus experience), and was shocked at how they managed to write so much code to do so little. You will be amazed at how many levels of indirection there are, with a little assumption hard-coded at every single point of indirection. (The net result being, in my case, that I couldn't actually create a gauge in Prometheus.)
I just use Jaeger and Prometheus together and they've never treated me wrong. I'm watching otel closely, but I wouldn't suggest that you use it quite yet, at least not for Go.
I used the metric implementation in Go (as someone with extensive Prometheus experience), and was shocked at how they managed to write so much code to do so little. You will be amazed at how many levels of indirection there are, with a little assumption hard-coded at every single point of indirection. (The net result being, in my case, that I couldn't actually create a gauge in Prometheus.)
I just use Jaeger and Prometheus together and they've never treated me wrong. I'm watching otel closely, but I wouldn't suggest that you use it quite yet, at least not for Go.