> ignoring decades of programming language
True, and because of this, the language can be learned over a weekend or during onboarding, new hires can rapidly digest codebases and be productive for the company, code is straightforward and easy to read, libraries can be quickly forked and adapted to suit project needs, and working in large teams on the same project is a lot easier than in many other languages, the compiler is blazing fast, and it's concurrency model is probably the most convenient I have ever seen.
Or to put this in less words: Go trades "being-modern" for amazing productivity.
> It always feels like a regression when switching from rust to go.
It really does, and that's what I love about Go. Don't get me wrong I like Rust. I like what it tries to do. But I also love the simplicity, and sheer productiveness of Go. If I have to deal with the odd nil-based error here and there, I consider that a small price to pay.
And judging by the absolute success Go has (measured by contributions to Github), many many many many many developers agree with me on this.
True, and because of this, the language can be learned over a weekend or during onboarding, new hires can rapidly digest codebases and be productive for the company, code is straightforward and easy to read, libraries can be quickly forked and adapted to suit project needs, and working in large teams on the same project is a lot easier than in many other languages, the compiler is blazing fast, and it's concurrency model is probably the most convenient I have ever seen.
Or to put this in less words: Go trades "being-modern" for amazing productivity.
> It always feels like a regression when switching from rust to go.
It really does, and that's what I love about Go. Don't get me wrong I like Rust. I like what it tries to do. But I also love the simplicity, and sheer productiveness of Go. If I have to deal with the odd nil-based error here and there, I consider that a small price to pay.
And judging by the absolute success Go has (measured by contributions to Github), many many many many many developers agree with me on this.