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by lgunsch
1951 days ago
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"Go is simple" is the main one and only reason I love Go. I learned Rust in my spare time, and it took me months to get to the point where I could write anything useful at all. I never did feel like I knew the language. I just don't have the spare time and energy to put in such a monumental effort into learning a language. After 2 weeks of Go I knew nearly all the ins and outs of the language. Once you add in sophisticated and strict linting from golangci-lint you just can't go wrong. Code reviews are a breeze and understanding code is a breeze. |
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For me Go is the ultimate "scratch the itch" language. Knowing C already, I learned everything I needed to know about Go in an hour or two. I see it as a faster and better version of Python, in that it's fairly readable, but unlike Python you can compile to native binaries and deploy on any platform (including Windows) without any fuss.
Personally I don't see it as competing in the same space as Rust. I've dipped my toe into Rust a few times and the language feels like way more effort than it's worth for the sort of glorified shell scripts I want to do in my personal time.