[jacquesm]

Rust, Go, Java, Scala, Clojure, Javascript... (leaving out quite a few other choices for brevity). They say choice is a good thing but too much choice is actually really annoying and fragments the community across a very large number of ecosystems.

[pdpi]

I see the point you're trying to make, yet:

- Nobody in their right mind would choose Rust or Javascript for a project where the other is more appropriate.

Though (AFAIK) Scala and Clojure both interop quite well with Java, and Scala/Clojure interop isn't terrible either, plus there's definitely a culture of reusing in Clojure/Scala all the stuff that the Java ecosystem already had. So this cluster isn't causing much fragmentation at all.

You have something of an argument that Go and the JVM languages clash for mindshare, but at that point the argument around really annoying fragmentation has kind of lost steam.

[akerro]

I can't stand JS and Go syntax, I tried a few times... This is the worst thing that happened to humanity after in XXI century. I feel more comfortable with Prolog than with JS.

[jacquesm]

In a way Go is a step backwards from C towards Pascal. Since a number of people that had extensive C experience and were in fact present at the birth of the C language made that decision I figure they are doing it for a good reason.

I can read Go easily enough, I haven't done any major writing in it (yet), other than some minor work on Hugo trying to help to nail down/replicate a bug. It was easy enough that I think I'd pick it up quite fast, the syntax feels 'weird' to me but that's most likely just unfamiliarity.