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by airhead969 1833 days ago
Don't unless it's to advance a particular career development or personal project goal. I left Go because it became a yuppie slum of trend-seekers riding a wave and leeching rather than contributing: blog hype and too many dumb support requests/questions. Making powerful languages too easy to get started without any understanding results in burdensome, low-signal distractions of maintainers and contributors.

This appears like it may happen with Rust but I hope it doesn't. It's a good thing it won't ever happen with Haskell, which is my warm safety-blanket should any particular language community implode.