Seems like Rob Pike and co may have failed
"The key point here is our programmers... They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language... So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand"
"The key point here is our programmers... They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language... So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand"
I don't think go lang will die out because it does get some things right. Unfortunately, there's still a bit of things going wrong.
There are so many surprising footguns and unsafe patterns that it really stands out as a risky language to me. But it has Google's (implied) backing and it works well enough to be used, and the performance is very good in general.
By this point it can probably survive for quite a long time on momentum alone. Which makes it a moderately-safe-to-use-in-a-business language.