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by insertnickname 3783 days ago
This happens with every language, it's not particular to Go or JavaScript.
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Yes, it's a sign of maturity to many developers, many of whom won't touch a language until there are hundreds of libraries, etc for everything. Marco Arment was ranting on his podcast that's it's better to use PHP over Go, for example, because there's so much more support.

https://www.relay.fm/radar/14

A language isn't useful, to me, unless there's an Excel format reader/writer and a popular web framework with SO answers.

Novel is not useful when you work in Enterprise software.