go has excessive verbosity, poor error handling, rough edges for package/dependency management, and forces you to use interface for too many things.
it’s not a bad language, but i would not choose it for a new project or base my company around it
it’s not a bad language, but i would not choose it for a new project or base my company around it
But the verbosity and "one way to do it" is a plus for large enough teams. There's no need to decipher someone else's code when you come in to it. The way they did it is the way you'd do it, because there's just one way to do it.
Verbosity is less important for reading code than writing it, and on big projects you do a lot of reading.
Because I find Go is better than Javascript/Typescript, Java, Python, C++, C# on all of those.
What is it you find better in Go?
But force feeding everyone Go is worse.
Code reviews would be a more constructive approach to the same goal.
Kotlin is also an exciting language that I have started to like, so it could be an option for those who dislike nulls.
Golang frankly seems boring and doesn't have any features I feel is worth switching for. I do understand that others may feel differently and I respect that.
My next side project will probably use a Java backend and a Laravel frontend with HTMX. I'm getting tired of React