Esp. with Go's quick compile time, I can see myself using it more and more even in my one-off scripts that would have used Python/Bash otherwise. Plus, I get a binary that I can port to other systems w/o problem.
Compiled is back?
Is this true? It seems to be a massive assumption.
Some of the code is janky garbage, but that’s what most code it. There’s no use pearl clutching.
Human engineering time is better spent at figuring out which problems to solve than typing code token by token.
Identifying what to work on, and why, is a great research skill to have and I’m glad we are getting to realistic technology to make that a baseline skill.
The vast majority of code is garbage, and has been for several decades.
The real money we used to get paid was for business success, not directly for code quality; the quality metrics we told ourselves were closer to CV-driven development than anything the people with the money understood let alone cared about, which in turn was why the term "technical debt" was coined as a way to try to get the leadership to care about what we care about.
There's some domains where all that stuff we tell ourselves about quality, absolutely does matter… but then there's the 278th small restaurant that wants a website with a menu, opening hours, and table booking service without having e.g. 1500 American corporations showing up in the cookie consent message to provide analytics they don't need but are still automatically pre-packaged with the off-the-shelf solution.