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Well Go's goal is a lowest common denominator language with the least amount of features possible and the easiest to learn for new graduates. This essentially makes it almost a toy language in fancy clothes. A toy language with the money of google backing it so it does actually feel useable.

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> the easiest to learn for new graduates

And I'd say it fails at that goal, judging by the number of gotchas in fundamental concepts of the language like slices or interfaces.

A surprising behavior of slices that had discussions on HN, and something I discovered in my own code as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9555472

And of course this gem was on HN just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26631116

> easiest to learn for new graduates

This was never a goal of go. Go was conceived out of frustration with c++. They wanted to reduce language complexity and build times (among other things). For me personally it's C without the hassle.

This is false. Here it is straight from the creator of the language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwajp0g-bY4

"Not capable of understanding a brilliant language." Wow as a googler I find this... Awful.

Man, people are really downvoting accurate information just because the truth hurts.

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