[alisonatwork]

Fully agree.

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.