Go is not a simple language. Please learn from my mistakes, and ignore arbitrary metrics like how go has fewer keywords. The complexity doesn't go away, it's hidden away somewhere.
If anybody wants to learn go, ignore everything about how easy it is to learn. Because it's extremely deceptive. Take time to actually read through a lot of the important underlying concepts like how slices work.
Ignore comments about how go is simple to write. There's a fair amount of bad go code and people break rules all the time. From official sdks to standard libs. Go can be extremely difficult to both write and read. It's implicit interfaces and judicious abuse of interface{} can make tracing how a library is supposed to work a PITA. Writing go can be difficult because of a lack of some language constructs that leave you unsure how to proceed.
If you can, use goland. I use vscode and it's... not pretty. Almost every single thread I've seen on reddit recommends goland. My experience with vscode has been very unpleasant, particularly with go plus.
OTOH, things like criticisms about it's error handling are overblown. At best it's a mild nuisance, and more often than not, a good thing that makes error handling explicit and clear.
There are many things about go that have made me appreciate it's existence. There are also many things that have left me absolutely baffled at how bad it is.
If anybody wants to learn go, ignore everything about how easy it is to learn. Because it's extremely deceptive. Take time to actually read through a lot of the important underlying concepts like how slices work.
Ignore comments about how go is simple to write. There's a fair amount of bad go code and people break rules all the time. From official sdks to standard libs. Go can be extremely difficult to both write and read. It's implicit interfaces and judicious abuse of interface{} can make tracing how a library is supposed to work a PITA. Writing go can be difficult because of a lack of some language constructs that leave you unsure how to proceed.
If you can, use goland. I use vscode and it's... not pretty. Almost every single thread I've seen on reddit recommends goland. My experience with vscode has been very unpleasant, particularly with go plus.
OTOH, things like criticisms about it's error handling are overblown. At best it's a mild nuisance, and more often than not, a good thing that makes error handling explicit and clear.
There are many things about go that have made me appreciate it's existence. There are also many things that have left me absolutely baffled at how bad it is.