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>>ustad+(OP)
Go has its fair share of flaws but I still think it hits a sweet spot that no other server side language provides.

It’s faster than Node or Python, with a better type system than either. It’s got a much easier learning curve than Rust. It has a good stdlib and tooling. Simple syntax with usually only one way to do things. Error handling has its problems but I still prefer it over Node, where a catch clause might receive just about anything as an “error”.

Am I missing a language that does this too or more? I’m not a Go fanatic at all, mostly written Node for backends in my career, but I’ve been exploring Go lately.

>>Skepti+OS
Yeah the big problem is that most languages have their fair share of rough edges. Go is performant and portable* with a good runtime and a good ecosystem. But it also has nil pointers, zero values, no destructors, and no macros. (And before anyone says macros are bad, codegen is worse, and Go has to use a lot of codegen to get around the lack of macros).

There are languages with fewer warts, but they're usually more complicated (e.g. Rust), because most of Go's problems are caused by its creators' fixation with simplicity at all costs.