While it’s fun to hate on Go and the language has indeed made some bizarre design choices, the fact that there’s even a market for Go shows that there’s some major deficiencies in other languages.
If Go is really so bad, why don’t Go programmers use e.g. Rust? I’m sure they’d cite things like:
- Compilation time is much faster in Go.
- Complexity. Rust is a highly complex language even for me as a C++ programmer. For those who are new to compiled languages they are certainly going to choose Go over Rust
- GC definitely has development time benefits over a borrow checker if you can afford the extra CPU headroom and memory usage
- Go’s concurrency model is more appealing to many people
The real question is, why is there not a “Go but designed by sane people” language?
golang doesn't really compete with rust, but it's more like a faster python/ruby/js. You can see this by the companies that have moved over from those languages to golang. Hype definitely plays a role, but also the perception that it's quick to pick up, and does decently well when it comes to performance.
> The real question is, why is there not a “Go but designed by sane people” language?
The fact is that the JVM and .NET platforms would almost surely do better for anything that golang is considered for, but there's a lot of hype and companies want to attract programmrs.
If Go is really so bad, why don’t Go programmers use e.g. Rust? I’m sure they’d cite things like:
- Compilation time is much faster in Go.
- Complexity. Rust is a highly complex language even for me as a C++ programmer. For those who are new to compiled languages they are certainly going to choose Go over Rust
- GC definitely has development time benefits over a borrow checker if you can afford the extra CPU headroom and memory usage
- Go’s concurrency model is more appealing to many people
The real question is, why is there not a “Go but designed by sane people” language?