For a few months now, I’ve been programming mostly in Go. Go is a programming language developed by Google, some kind of modern version of C.
Instead of listing here all the findings, I’ll just point to the excellent summary by Sylvain Vallez. With my couple of months of experience in Go, I can fully agree with Sylvain’s points.
When I think of Go, the first thing that comes to my mind is the error handling. Probably half of my code is for error handling:
if err != nil {
return err
}
But overall I’m quite satisfied with Go. It gets the job done, and I like statically typed languages. If it had generics, I might even enjoy using it.