> do you really think Go is anywhere near C#/Java? Most devs in these languages tend to feel hampered by the roughness, the essentialism of Go[1]; whereas typical C++/C solutions benefit greatly from a simpler, indeed essential approach
Hard to say; it's important to recognize that Golang is still young, compared to Java/C#; the generics subject is very much open.
My very general idea is that Golang is a more modern language, specifically, because it was build from the ground up to tackle more modern problems (concurrency and networking first of all).
Also it's important to consider that there is an ecosystem beyond the pure language design - single binary approach, compiling time, etc. (I also have not-so-fond memories of XML-based build tools, I prefer Makefiles).
I've read of people writing fairly low-level stuff in Gol. I still personally prefer a proper systems programming language for that type of work. On the other hand though, many C/++ tools/projects originated when there wasn't so much availability of compiled languages - therefore the choice of such languages was not ideal; definitely, in the same conditions, Golang would have probabaly be better suited (but imagine how large it would be an Ubuntu distribution where all was written in Go ;-)).
Hard to say; it's important to recognize that Golang is still young, compared to Java/C#; the generics subject is very much open.
My very general idea is that Golang is a more modern language, specifically, because it was build from the ground up to tackle more modern problems (concurrency and networking first of all).
Also it's important to consider that there is an ecosystem beyond the pure language design - single binary approach, compiling time, etc. (I also have not-so-fond memories of XML-based build tools, I prefer Makefiles).
I've read of people writing fairly low-level stuff in Gol. I still personally prefer a proper systems programming language for that type of work. On the other hand though, many C/++ tools/projects originated when there wasn't so much availability of compiled languages - therefore the choice of such languages was not ideal; definitely, in the same conditions, Golang would have probabaly be better suited (but imagine how large it would be an Ubuntu distribution where all was written in Go ;-)).