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Not sure how good the original article is, but this is a poor rant.

And I very much dislike Go as a language.




Agreed. The original article made a good point of the language being simple (feature-light) makes it appealing for enterprises, as an alternative to Java, for building enterprise solutions. Go is easy to pick up and the language is opinionated, forcing teams to adhere to a uniform way of doing things.

I was interested in a rebuttal which would address these points. Instead, it comes across as just addressing the points in the article as an attack on Rust.


Agreed. Also, when someone says they have not written anything in some language, it makes me less interested in reading them ramble on about it (positively or negatively).

It comes across like: "X-Drink is better than Y-Drink, even though I've never tasted Y-Drink!"

Kudos to them for admitting that fact at least, I guess?


The original article is pretty well written and much more of a structured discussion than this one.

Both of these languages make people feel passionate in a way that other languages do not, and so we will continue to see these kinds of discussions, which I think is a good thing.

Better to have the overall software development community lively and engaged with the tools than cynical or disinterested.




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