Go is a slower C[1] with worse syntax and oversold ideas.
Stockholm syndrom is a builtin feature that comes with it and not much else. It doesn't provide basic stuff like generics, warnings, or exceptions because the authors want to make a bold statement about how they are in the Right and their potential users are wrong.
Meanwhile system software will continues to be built in C and C++ since Go addressed some real problems with system programming but created new ones.
Go was explicitely created for the average programmer like is said in videos talks. It is a dumbed down language to address the maintenance problem through tools instead of through better craftmanship. Go isn't very successful at Google but in startups who could do technically anything and still have the same outcome.
"It's Stockholm Syndrome." "It's one of the languages for those that can't."
The reason so many Go advocates seem irrationally biased is because they're under near-permanent assault. Personal assault. The anti-Go crowd never lets a Go post fly by without arguing against it, but it's the "...and everyone who is using it is stupid, ignorant, a kid, or just doesn't understand programming" that leads to the kind of defensiveness that tends to crop up. Argue against the language, but please, stop assuming people who have made different choices and have different priorities or preferences are dumb.
Stockholm syndrom is a builtin feature that comes with it and not much else. It doesn't provide basic stuff like generics, warnings, or exceptions because the authors want to make a bold statement about how they are in the Right and their potential users are wrong.
Meanwhile system software will continues to be built in C and C++ since Go addressed some real problems with system programming but created new ones.
Go was explicitely created for the average programmer like is said in videos talks. It is a dumbed down language to address the maintenance problem through tools instead of through better craftmanship. Go isn't very successful at Google but in startups who could do technically anything and still have the same outcome.
As always with the HN hype: Do. Not. Listen.
[1]: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/go.php