Agreed! Go is the only language I’ve found that combines static typing, lightning fast compilation, great concurrency support, a lightweight runtime, a community that emphasizes simplicity over purity, a strong ecosystem, and nice tooling.

However, ever churning dependency management, cumbersome error handling and the lack of generics were all huge drawbacks, that kept me reaching for Scala and Python for backends of personal projects. When Go 2 comes out, I think it’ll be my clear #1. It’ll bring the language to the level of power I like, while maintaining Go’s unique set of strengths (listed above).