[smabie]

I dunno, I feel like Go was created to commoditize the work of programmers. Make everyone write the same stupid and repetitive code, over and over again. No one will ever be able to fuck it up, and no one will ever do anything interesting with it. You can onboard new hires who don't know the language in literally an hour. When reading the code, everyone will understand what each line does but there will be so many lines in the codebase that most people won't actually have time to understand the entire project (which is probably how the managers prefer it, actually). The performance will be pretty okay, since the language isn't high level enough to not be aware of the performance of the code you're writing. Great for companies with a gazillion coders. Like Google.

Programming in Go is like trying to tie your shoes with one hand. You can do it, and its okay (I guess), but you can always see how things could be so much easier.

Maybe this is a bit much, but I find Go offensive: designed for the maximum amount of typing and least amount of thinking. Even Java looks like a powerful language in comparison.