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Well let perfect not be the enemy of the good. The reality is that Go is wildly successful in practice for good reasons that have been hashed numerous times. As a result tons of Cloud software is written in Go.

There is nothing Go needs to be ashamed on. Its mindshare is a result of a good choice people made at a certain point in time. A better language will win at its own merits.

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I'm not letting perfect be the enemy of good, I'm saying Go isn't good. No language is perfect, but there's literally not a single use case I'd choose Go for, because there are a dozen languages that do almost everything better.

> Its mindshare is a result of a good choice people made at a certain point in time.

Its mindshare is a result of Google using it, and people mistakenly thinking that if Google uses it, it must be good.

That's OK. But saying it isn't good as a fact is a bit misleading. If it wasn't any good, it would not be used and would've faded to obscurity a long time ago. That is not the case, so there must be some redeeming qualities to is

> Well let perfect not be the enemy of the good.

When you have half a dozen generic builtins but reject the idea that builtins are necessary, and can’t even be arsed to provide a working vector type, you’re nowhere near “good”.

They never rejected it. In the very first post launching it they commented that they considered Generics but didn't add them because they didn't find a way that works well with Go's principles. I'm happy it took them the time it did to get to the current design. They did have a vector type before version 1 too, they intentionally removed it for similar reasons.

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