I personally love Rust and think Rust is the future for C and C++, and use it professionally. But Go is simple, fun, fast, and easy to read and frankly more approachable by the people many companies can afford to hire.

I view language choice as a line. If I need to build big, or build niche, or build fast, I use Rust. But if it’s general purpose I use Go. I can write Go faster than I can write Python because the type system gives me a fast feedback loop and the language is simple and builds in the common case building blocks. I can get better performance and understand my app better than with the JVM because it’s compiled ahead of time and I already know the ins and outs of Linux. There is no black box JVM that consumes resources while idling.

Go has advanced the state of formatting, documentation, and revitalized the Unix philosophy of building small, focused pieces without getting caught in the clouds over abstracting.

If you are currently using a Python, Java, C#, or JavaScript, Go is better. Just don’t post angrily to your blog until you’ve written Go while also embracing its philisophy and taking the time to understand the authors intentions.