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C# 1.0 was also boring and effective - modern versions are still effective, and I'd say they are more powerful.

Golang in 15 years will likely converge and embrace many of the missing features of mature languages (its happening now already), especially if it wants to reach broader adoption.

A reference like "Go is a get shit done language." very much reflects overall immaturity of the language that I see day to day.

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>Golang in 15 years will likely converge and embrace many of the missing features of mature languages (its happening now already), especially if it wants to reach broader adoption.

Go is 10 years old already and picking new features at an extremely low rate, with no hints at a pace change.

I think error management and generics should be the only major changes to expect within the next 5 years. C# is more complex by an order of magnitude... And thus its evolution was and is still way faster.

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