It's weird. At a time I was looking for a "better" python. Something simpler and safer than C/C++ but faster than python and more importantly that can produce a single binary. So I looked at everything from Rust to obscure language like Hare.

Go should have been the obvious choice but for a reason I don't understand I dislike its syntax. For Rust I understand: it uses a lot of special characters that aren't easy to remember and to type with a non qwerty keyboards (plus other unrelated pain points). For the different lisp, it was the parenthesis and the reverse polish notation. But for Go, I'm unable to rationalize why I don't like it.

For the anecdote, I settled on compiling my python code with nuitka. No speed gain that I'm aware of but I can now provides a binary. I'm also looking more and more at C# because of its progressing AOT compilation and although I dislike the verbosity of its base mode and the fact it's so tied to windows.

I liked a lot nim and crystal but the small community was a barrier, although I'm really impressed by what nim is managing to do with such a small community and it may me think it's an excellent language

(I will try to motivate myself to pick up one of the language I mentionned above also)