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by f2f 4242 days ago
your "should" and "should" should be replaced with "doesn't" and "doesn't" or at best "may" and "may".

more code has been written in Go than Haskell, Rust and Ocaml combined.

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More code will be written in COBOL this year alone than has ever been written in Go.
So what? More code has been written in C and Java than Go and Rust and Ocaml and whatever-else combined. A language's popularity says little about its complexity or how good of a language it is.

Powerful languages let you grapple with problems, weak languages first make you grapple with the language before tackling problems. Some people feel like Go gets in the way. I have not written any Go, but I understand both the praise and the criticism.

Powerful languages can cause other issues, but they do enable certain things that weaker languages simply never can.

You're being a little vague. Can you give a couple examples where software projects were done in "powerful languages?" I can certainly appreciate that higher level languages are better. However, it seems like in practice they are not used as often as you would hope.
C and Java are not the subject here.
Do you have a source? I don't find your claim implausible, however I would like to know how you came to that conclusion.
the internet is my source.
The Internet, in general, can be very unreliable.
How do I know this statement is reliable?
> more code has been written in Go than Haskell, Rust and Ocaml combined.

[Citation needed]