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by nine_k 361 days ago
They also built a language that can be learned in a weekend (well, now two) and is small enough for a fresh grad hire to learn at the job.

Go has a very low barrier to entry, but also a relatively low ceiling. The proliferation of codegen tools for Go is a testament of its limited expressive power.

It doesn't mean that Go didn't hit a sweet spot. For certain tasks, it very much did.