Comment by zzzeek

Go is the kind of language you use at your job, and you necessarily need to have dozens of linters and automated code quality checks set up to catch all the gotchas, like the stuff with "err" here, and nobody is ever going to get any joy from any of it. the entire exercise of "you must return and consume an error code from all functions" has been ridiculous from go's inception, it looked ridiculous to me back when I saw it in 2009, and now that I have to use it for k8s stuff at work, it's exactly as ridiculous as it seemed back then.

With all of that, Go becomes the perfect language for the age of LLMs writing all the code. Let the LLMs deal with all the boilerplate and misery of Go, while at the same time its total lack of elegance is also well suited to LLMs which similarly have the most dim notions of code elegance.