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by rudolf0 4005 days ago
I take it you're probably not a huge fan of Golang? :)
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I would imagine not, though the parent can speak for himself. I agree with what has been said before, that Go is a bold step backwards, just another language to replace large amounts of Legacy Enterprise Code with (sometimes) slightly less large amounts of (Soon To Be Legacy) Enterprise Code. Go has going for it corporate backing and a good community, but on the technical merits alone, there is a better language for every task.
I wish I was. That little gopher is adorable.

Rust, on the other hand, gives me palpitations.

Is golang very verbose?
I don't know about "very", but it's pretty verbose and very imperative. You have to do a lot of repetition, often straight up code copy+pasting, in some cases.