Comment by ergonaught

For the most part I've loved Go since just before 1.0 through today. Nits can surely be picked, but "it's still not good" is a strange take.

I think there is little to no chance it can hold on to its central vision as the creators "age out" of the project, which will make the language worse (and render the tradeoffs pointless).

I think allowing it to become pigeon holed as "a language for writing servers" has cost and will continue to cost important mindshare that instead jumps to Rust or remains in Python or etc.

Maybe it's just fun, like harping on about how bad Visual Basic was, which was true but irrelevant, as the people who needed to do the things it did well got on with doing so.