Comment by dlisboa
4 hours ago
It just isn't. There's nothing stopping other languages from being that easy but very few even try.
Go sees itself more as a total dev environment than just a language. There's integrated build tooling, package management, toolchain management, mono repo tools, testing, fuzzing, coverage, documentation, formatting, code analysis tools, performance tools...everything integrated in a single binary and it doesn't feel bloated at all.
You see a lot of modern runtimes and languages have learned from Go. Deno, Bun and even Rust took a lot of their cues from Go. It's understood now that you need a lot more than just a compiler/runtime to be useful. In languages that don't have that kind of tooling the community is trying to make them more Go-like, for example `uv` for Python.
Getting started in a Go project is ridiculously easy because of that integrated approach.
I personally like Go and appreciate its simplicity and tooling and everything but the example given is "making a folder" and "putting a ... main() func" in it. But, like, this is exactly as easy with every single other language that I can think of.
The second part "Running go install at the root ./.." is actually terrible and risky but, still, trivial with make (a - literally - 50 year old program) or shell or just whatever.
I get that the feelz are nice and all (just go $subcmd) but.. come on.