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>>ustad+(OP)
I personally don't like Go, and it has many shortcomings, but there is a reason it is popular regardless:

Go is a reasonably performant language that makes it pretty straightforward to write reliable, highly concurrent services that don't rely on heavy multithreading - all thanks to the goroutine model.

There really was no other reasonably popular, static, compiled language around when Google came out.

And there still barely is - the only real competitor that sits in a similar space is Java with the new virtual threads.

Languages with async/await promise something similar, but in practice are burdened with a lot of complexity (avoiding blocking in async tasks, function colouring, ...)

I'm not counting Erlang here, because it is a very different type of language...

So I'd say Go is popular despite the myriad of shortcomings, thanks to goroutines and the Google project street cred.

>>the_du+yd
What modern language is a better fit for new projects in your opinion?

>>zwnow+de
Elixir, with types

>>alouki+re
I love Elixir but you cannot compile it into a single binary, it is massively concurrent but single-threaded slow, and deployment is still nontrivial.

And lists are slower than arrays, even if they provide functional guarantees (everything is a tradeoff…)

That said, pretty much everything else about it is amazing though IMHO and it has unique features you won’t find almost anywhere else