https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_betterGo is a language made by Googlers, so its design helps with Google problems. And many of Google's problems are ones of scale.
* Go is straightforward to read. Any reasonably-competent college graduate should have little trouble understanding it and be able to become productive quickly.
* Go compiles into completely static binaries. You don't have issues like "oops, the build system runs CentOS 7 but we're deploying it to Ubuntu 18.04 and their libc's aren't compatible." With containers, you can copy many Go programs into `FROM scratch` images and they will work fine, greatly reducing the attack surface area.
I used to dislike for Go for similar reasons to you and others, but after using it for a few years at $employer, I've come to appreciate its merits. Sure, it can be a bit annoying to write
if err != nil {
return err
}
again and again at first, but I just type 3yy7jp to yank+paste it as needed. You could also configure some editors to detect when you type `if err` and generate it automatically. It's also not uncommon for editors to fold the lines down into a single line.
Go is a language made by Googlers, so its design helps with Google problems. And many of Google's problems are ones of scale.
* Go is straightforward to read. Any reasonably-competent college graduate should have little trouble understanding it and be able to become productive quickly.
* Go compiles into completely static binaries. You don't have issues like "oops, the build system runs CentOS 7 but we're deploying it to Ubuntu 18.04 and their libc's aren't compatible." With containers, you can copy many Go programs into `FROM scratch` images and they will work fine, greatly reducing the attack surface area.
I used to dislike for Go for similar reasons to you and others, but after using it for a few years at $employer, I've come to appreciate its merits. Sure, it can be a bit annoying to write
again and again at first, but I just type 3yy7jp to yank+paste it as needed. You could also configure some editors to detect when you type `if err` and generate it automatically. It's also not uncommon for editors to fold the lines down into a single line.