Comment by sheepmullet
11 years ago
Most of the negative reactions to Go aren't really to do with the language itself. They are more general feelings of frustration with our industry.
Part of the reason Go is so popular is because we place such a low value on education, training, and long term productivity, and a high value on getting things done quickly. In general our industry is focused on the short term, is fad driven, and is more than willing to turn on our own.
Go is a language created to win in this kind of environment. And because people hate the environment... they focus their animosity on the tools that are successful in our environment.
> more than willing to turn on our own
This "it's so simple!" nonsense is an exemplification of that.
By reducing everyone (even good programmers) to the lowest common denominator, talent is far more commoditized and pluggable. You can throw away Programmer A because Programmer B is "as good as it can get for