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Go tooling is excellent. Above anything else IMHO. Sadly the language itself is not so good.

This is completely true. "Everything about Go is amazing, except the language."

No snark intended, I say this unironically as someone who uses Go regularly, even for new projects.

The language is pretty polarizing--you either "get" and appreciate the design decisions or you find them limiting and archaic.

Indeed, although I feel like there isn't enough of a language to hate. It's so simple and yet packs such a punch when combined with the tooling and stdlib.

They are the people you hear from. A lot of people are neutral. People who get it, but don't care either way. They don't write opinionated blog posts every Sunday to lament or idolize the newest feature in Go.

It's a minimilist, practical language that picks a set of features much different than most popular languages today.

I wouldn't pick it for code golf or a programming competitions, but as someone who's been programming for a long time and haa come to value the ability to make clean, simple code that doesn't break (eslecially in weird ways at bad times), I really enjoy Go and think it actually is a really good, if in certain respects unambitious, language.

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