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if I had to use Go I’d change my career and go do some gardening :)



I actually really enjoy Go. Sure it has a type system I wish was more powerful with lots of weird corners ( https://100go.co/ ), but it also has REALLY GOOD tooling- lots of nice libraries, the compiler is fast, the editor tooling is rock solid, it's easy to add linters to warn you about many issues (golangci-lint), and releasing binaries and updating package repositories is super nice (Goreleaser).


I'd probably have said the same 5 years ago, it's surprising how easy you change sides once you actually use it in a team.


I was mostly joking… some of the most amazing shit code-wise I have seen in “non-mainstream” languages (fortran leads the way here)


I had to, and I do think a lot about gardening these days...


I like Anders'answer there. "But you can achieve pretty great things with it".


Because it's so easy that you'd have a lot more time for gardening?




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