[sebchris]

My expectations surrounding Go were born from my intense admiration for Python, which has grown so much as a language from its humble genesis at Google and proudly stood the test the time. Needless to say, I was beyond disappointed. Barring its concurrency module, which is some half-backed mixture of STM and async, I was astonished at the absurdity of the language. It reminds me of JavaScript, which as I recall was originally written as a sort of joke. So yeah, Go's like a bad joke.

[dustycat]

Python did not have a genesis at Google. It existed before Google did.

JavaScript was written by Brendan Eich as the browser-side scripting language for the Netscape browser, originally based on Lisp I believe. It was not meant to be a joke.