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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
I’ve only used Go for a little toy project but I’m surprised to hear the opinion that it has a better type system than Node, a runtime for which the defacto type system is typescript!

Agree on node/TS error handling. It’s super whack