The lack of generics is often mentioned in discussions regarding Go.
I would have liked Go to have algebraic data types and immutability by default. I would gladly give nil away to get these features.
On the positive side, Go has good libraries, good tooling, a common style and a syntax that is extremely easy to pick up. It’s fast enough and it has good support for concurrency via goroutines. It also produces executables that are very easy to deploy anywhere.
Given this description, it seems to me that Go is an evolution of C and Python and I decided to give it a try rewriting a project originally written in Python I am working on.
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