[stevekemp]

I started my programming career with Perl, Assembly, C, and C++. Over the years I've touched Java, PHP, Lisp, Lua, TCL, Ruby, Python, FORTH, and others to a greater or lesser extent.

In all my current projects I default to starting with golang. Some things annoy me, but on the whole the benefits outweigh the annoyance.

I am very much looking forward to the pending 1.18 release - not for the generics, but for the fuzz-testing support. I've been fuzz-testing my applications/libraries for the past few years, and I think this is extraordinarily useful and I hope with a wider audience using such techniques we'll all benefit.

(golang developers already have a good culture of writing test-cases, much like Perl did back in the day with the TAP format. But fuzz testing is magical and often catches things developers didn't think about.)