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There's definitely a space for native languages that are not as dense and performant possibly as Rust. I will trade some readability when I need strict memory guarantees and use Rust, but most of my time I'd like to use something readable and fun to use, which Rust ain't.

I used to use Go, not much of a fan anymore, but I'm liking Crystal a lot to fill this space. Eventually Zig when it's more mature.

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Just started learning Go. If I may ask, why did you loose interest in Go?

Not enough syntax sugar, not functional enough, and a few smaller papercuts.

It feels dry, like a humourless android. Not very fun to write but probably the most pragmatic choice for the problem. I prefer having fun when I program.

I tend to see that as an advantage - the language gets out of the way and lets me just have fun with the problem itself. Especially if I'm referencing code other people wrote (ie libraries) where I can pretty much instantly grok what's going on and focus on the logic. Different strokes

I wouldn't call a huge mountain of `if err != nil` “gets out of the way”.

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