[sk0g]

Go is sane for some definitions of the word! If I got to choose a language to work with though, it would definitely be Kotlin or C#, but I prefer Go over Python because there are fewer ways to solve problems, leading to generally simpler code.

It's like a modernised C but for web/infrastructure. Unfortunately ignores about 3 decades worth of progress in other languages, and is simplistic to a fault. Jumping into an unknown codebase is easier than every other language I've used as a result.

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Go has it's time and place just like C. The developers chose to ignore that progress and created the C for distributed and parallelizeable code. Using go for what you use JavaScript for is like using C to do Java work. Sure you can do it, but it's not going to be easy and you're going to have a bad time.

As you've said, Go is sane by some definitions of the word but a user should know what types of sanity and insanity they are willing to work with and which are inherent to their problem space