I used ruby for a long time and Go more recently. I think Go is fun. I’m able to read code bases with consistency. In a lot of Ruby apps, I see creative flexing that is unique to that person, or teams style.

The fun part is getting code written, and shipped. And it stays fun when it’s maintainable and production ready.

I’m having a lot of fun shipping Go code. :) I definitely can understand a codebase a lot faster than a random ruby one. That may be a personal thing but it works for me.

Depends on your definition of fun, I guess. I personally don't like Ruby because of that fun-factor. In most cases, it makes programming easier for the novice, but more complicated for the experienced.

This is because to make it easier for the novice, there are all kinds of constructs that try to make the code imitate normal English. But coding software is a completely different thing than writing text, thus the English-like front is in fact a smoke screen that hides the real gears.

A small example would be the unless keyword. It completely throws me of each time I come across it, because it reverses the order of evaluation:

Do something, unless condition applies.

I read that from left to right, so in my mind "Do something" has already executed, but then I have to go back, because the condition might not apply. This get really 'fun' if the condition is something negative.

I like Go just because it way more simple. Even it is a bit more verbose in the error handling, everywhere else it is very minimal and clear.

That's only the postfix version of unless though, and you could use if the same way. And inversely, you can use unless is its own block, like if.