[jhoechtl]

> I've written a bit of code in Go, and the problem I have with it is primarily it feels really outdated for a "modern" language

Go is a language to get the job done. It's for the masses. It's this type of language you write a blog post on how you have done this and that and why instead of a scientific paper. It's really the boring mortar.

OTOH it will pay your rent.

[theshrike79]

Exactly this. Go is the language you use when you need to get shit done, reasonably performant and easily distributed to different operating systems.

The language actively hinders any attempts to be fancy or "expressive". You write (or copy/paste) the same pattern(s) over and over again.

On the other hand, you can pick up pretty much anyone's Go codebase and quickly see how it works. No need to figure out what flavour of metaprogramming or other fancy crap the original author was a fan of at the time of writing.

It's boring, it pays the bills. You can be expressive with other languages on your own time.