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I love Go and I think many people use - it works great in production environments and it's cross-platform by default. Are you insinuating it's not a widely-used language? Without going too far, Docker is written in Go.

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I learned Go as my first statically typed language(Worked on ruby and some python before that). Although I missed the functional goodies from Ruby in Go, I thought that was the price I had to pay for performance and static checking guarantees.. Nevertheless, I enjoyed writing Go and its take on writing concurrent programs. As others have called it, I thought of Go as "modern C with garbage collection and first class concurrency primitives".

All this changed when I started learning Rust, man was I blown away by the language.. I never thought a statically typed language with manual memory management can feel so "scripting language" like.(Sure the borrow checker annoys you sometimes, nothing a `.clone()` can't fix when you are starting out). I truly enjoy writing Rust these days and never have I missed anything major from Ruby.

I'll be damned if I sit here and criticize Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, but I feel like in their quest to make Go "simple" they've perhaps held a little too hard on to their past.

tldr; Go feels a little too verbose and "dated" after learning rust.

I had this exact same progression, but with Python instead of Ruby. Go was a great intro to statically typed langurs though, I’d take go over JVM any day.

Currently love Rust, but Crystal, Nim, and Swift are all rather distracting.

Once Go gets generics I’ll be interested in giving it a second look.

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