On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 18:42:06 UTC, bauss wrote:
Go is garbage and it's only popular because Google is behind it. It has absolutely nothing to do with the language itself.
I don't know if I'd agree that it's garbage - it has a lot of appeal to certain types of programmers, though not to me - but I do agree that it's popular (to whatever extent it is) because of Google. I remember when the language was first announced, there were a lot of people excited by the prospect that GOOGLE IS CREATING A LANGUAGE. IT HAS TO BE AWESOME. These were not people who tried the language and found it to be better than the alternatives. They were people who hadn't even seen it. That was back in the days when Microsoft was the devil and Google were the good guys.
Of course, one could argue that it must have offered enough to keep some of them interested. They were able to get stuff done when they used it.
