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by jerf 3941 days ago
I like it, because I'm writing network servers for the most part. Don't use it for scientific, numeric, or desktop GUI work. You can find posts on /r/golang where I actively discourage that. The further you get from a network server, the worse off you are.

How much more balanced do you want? If "balanced" looks like advocacy, well, maybe the problem is the community has overshot into the trough of disillusionment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

If the community was over-praising Go... no, actually, when the community was over-praising Go, you know, that thing that caused the backlash we're in now... I was more negative. It wasn't the Best Language Ever. It's also not the Worst Language Ever.

And I'm generally against seeing "Library X, BUT IN $X!" on the front page of HN for all values of $X, but, that's a separate discussion.