[joncampbelldev]

Whilst an easy start is nice, any language that you can pick up with no effort just means you're learning the same language + paradigm that you already know with a few differing features (in go's case CSP). Nothing wrong with that, CSP is awesome etc

I'm not a rust dev (definitely interested in picking it up though), but heavily into clojure and learning haskell slowly on the side. I hear this complaint a lot from people who think that because they learnt C#, Go, Java and Swift in a weekend that all languages will be just as quick to stick in their heads.

[Jare]

A lot of people have to unlearn "classic" OOP inheritance in order to learn Go. That's a significant change in paradigm.

[Manishearth]

I don't think this is necessarily true. Go did introduce some paradigm shifts, but they were gentle and easy to ease in to.

Also, I mean, sure, the language may not have new things, but ultimately the goal is to use the damn thing, not learn new concepts :) Go is amazing for that.

I totally agree that expecting to learn a random language in a weekend is unreasonable.

[PopsiclePete]

What Go borrowed from CSP - channels - is definitely awesome. But it was Go's interfaces that was the real game-changer for me. Very under-appreciated.