[arthurtw]

> 2. Static compilation. This makes a massive difference over Python in terms of catching and correcting problems at compile time vs run time.

Correct. When comparing a static programming language to a dynamic one such as Go vs Python, this is a critical difference. It impacts system stability (production outage rate) and code maintainability a lot, the two characteristics a long-running product desperately needs.

But Go is not comparable to C. Go is garbage-collected, so unlike Rust, it is not a true system programming language (i.e. not low-level enough). On the other hand, it is not high-level enough. It lacks many advanced language constructs, and its type system is rather limited. Simplicity is a big merit of Go, but it's too limited IMO.

Go solves many software development problems for large engineering teams, so I think its ecosystem will keep growing for a while.