Discussion on: Pitch me on Go

[Manuel Odendahl]

Pros:

• get shit done
• very readable
• lots of nice libraries
• all libraries that do async work are easily integratable
• easy cross compilation + static binaries
• opinionated toolchain
• easy to integrate code generation
• go mod + workspaces finally make it nice
• faster than most things out there, good enough for serious embedded work

Cons:

• kind of user hostile (terse tool output)
• dependency management was a shitshow for a long time (kind of solved)
• people gloss over the fact that you can easily make big big concurrency booboo if you don't know what you are doing
• very verbose (github copilot helps a lot)