Go is a relatively simple language that doesn't look like it's getting much bigger and I'm pretty sure it has a fairly broad user base.
Also, I’m kind of on the fence about Go. I was charmed by how easy it is to read and their error handling strategy admittedly has benefits. But it is awfully tedious to write.
I prefer Go immeasurably. All of the same scope is achievable, but I'm not constantly assaulted by new syntax, unwieldy OO hierarchy towers of Babel, or broken data frameworks.
foo, err := DoIt() if err != nil { return err }
is a small price to pay for sane control flow in the presence of exceptions. I can debug code in Vim without needing Reflector and Visual Studio to make sense of what I'm looking at.
Every time I hear someone say something like this, I have a mental image of people manhandling 200kg crates while the forklift sits idle because they can't be bothered learning how to drive it.
Reminds me of that multi-million dollar German-made road resurfacing machine that sat unused in some US city because the road crew thought it was too complicated to learn. Sure... they'd have to read the manual and learn to operate it, but that would only save millions of dollars in labour!
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.numerics....
you can be productive on the first tasks in any language. that is a stupid pitch. bad code can be written in any language, especially in golang. I've seen as many bad code in golang than in other languages. and fixing bad code in golang is way worse than in some other languages.