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by crabbygrabby 1468 days ago
JavaScript is nutty but let's be honest, js is one of the most widely used programming languages. For better and for worse.

I don't think go lang will die out because it does get some things right. Unfortunately, there's still a bit of things going wrong.

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Honestly, I expect Go to be lumped together with JavaScript in terms of "weird but still in use" languages in the long run.

There are so many surprising footguns and unsafe patterns that it really stands out as a risky language to me. But it has Google's (implied) backing and it works well enough to be used, and the performance is very good in general.

By this point it can probably survive for quite a long time on momentum alone. Which makes it a moderately-safe-to-use-in-a-business language.