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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
Maybe this is a bit pedantic, but it bothers me when people refer to "Node" as a programming language. It's not a language, it's a JavaScript runtime. Which to that you might say "well when people say Node they just mean JavaScript". But that's also probably not accurate, because a good chunk of modern Node-executed projects are written in TypeScript, not JavaScript. So saying "Node" doesn't actually say which programming language you mean. (Also, there are so many non-Node ways to execute JavaScript/TypeScript nowadays)

Anyway, assuming you're talking about TypeScript, I'm surprised to hear that you prefer Go's type system to TypeScript's. There are definitely cases where you can get carried away with TypeScript types, but due to that expressiveness I find it much more productive than Go's type system (and I'd make the same argument for Rust vs. Go).

>>genshi+W21
Yeah, but no one is using v8 directly, even though technically you could if you wanted. Node.js is as much JavaScript as LuaJIT is Lua, or GCC compiles C.

>>andrew+fa1
Fair, but I think the JavaScript ecosystem is unique in that the language is very separate from the thing that executes/compiles it. When you write Go, 99.9% of the time you're writing for the Go compiler.

When you write JavaScript (or TypeScript that gets transpiled), it's not as easy to assume the target is Node (V8). It could be Bun (JavaScriptCore), Deno, a browser, etc.