> You are comparing Go to Python, JS, and C++, arguably the three most complex languages to build.
No, I'm comparing to more than a dozen different languages that I've used commercially. And there were direct references there to Perl, Java, Pascal, procedural SQL, and many, many others too.
> There are languages out there that are easy to build, have a reasonable std lib
Sure. And the existence of them doesn't mean Go isn't also simple.
> and don't offload the complexity of the world onto the programmer.
I disagree. Every language makes tradeoffs, and those tradeoffs always end up being complexities that the programmer has to negotiate. This is something I've seen, without exception, in my 40 years of language agnosticism and part-time language designer.
No, I'm comparing to more than a dozen different languages that I've used commercially. And there were direct references there to Perl, Java, Pascal, procedural SQL, and many, many others too.
> There are languages out there that are easy to build, have a reasonable std lib
Sure. And the existence of them doesn't mean Go isn't also simple.
> and don't offload the complexity of the world onto the programmer.
I disagree. Every language makes tradeoffs, and those tradeoffs always end up being complexities that the programmer has to negotiate. This is something I've seen, without exception, in my 40 years of language agnosticism and part-time language designer.