Maybe the "Google" part has to do with the fact that the language has some backing and isn't going to disappear overnight because the lone developer decided to abandon it.
p.s. Your hatred of Go is kind of funny to this outsider. I may be just a stupid coder w/o a CS degree but spent a couple of decades in the trenches. Since a superior language would naturally eliminate the puny offerings of Go, I await your wisdom in the language that will save me and other mindless drones from futile coding. Please enlighten me with the language that will save me from this programming plague.
> Maybe the "Google" part has to do with the fact that the language has some backing and isn't going to disappear overnight because the lone developer decided to abandon it.
...which is also true of numerous alternatives to Go.
> p.s. Your hatred of Go is kind of funny to this outsider. I may be just a stupid coder w/o a CS degree but spent a couple of decades in the trenches. Since a superior language would naturally eliminate the puny offerings of Go, I await your wisdom in the language that will save me and other mindless drones from futile coding. Please enlighten me with the language that will save me from this programming plague.
Yes that's very witty.
I don't believe there's one true language--if I have a choice of languages I choose the one I feel is most appropriate to the job.
However, I would like to see the industry move forward. I want to be able to find work with better programming languages. I'd love to see Rust replace C/C++ in spaces where performance, memory, size, etc. are priorities. I'd love to see one of the handful of higher-performance scripting languages that have come about in the last few years gain the maturity and library support that Ruby and Python have. Seeing Go become popular is frustrating because it's a step back, not a step forward. If the industry goes in that direction, it will affect the industry negatively, but it will also affect me negatively. And if you're still working in the industry it will affect you negatively too, so I'm not sure why you think it's funny.
As I said, there's not one true language. If you want my recommendation for what language you should be using you'd have to tell me what problem you're trying to solve.
Yes, it's hard to choose the right language, but Go doesn't solve that. It just throws a shitty tool into the mix.
For the situations where you need moderately high performance but don't need manual memory management (which is where people seem to be using Go) I'd look at Lua or Julia. Both support the same threading model as Go and comparable performance, with the option to optimize in C. But unlike Go, which provides neither the safety of a reasonable static type system nor the convenience of a dynamic type system, they choose dynamic types. They also both have pretty good library support and active communities.
If you want something low-level like C, there really aren't better options. Objective-C is worth considering, but it still has a lot of C baggage. C++ is just far too complicated a language with too many dark corners; I can't really stomach it any more. Rust is still bleeding edge, but it might be worth the risk of having to change code later to use it. Yes, I realize I'm not providing a solid solution here, but let's be clear: neither are you. Go is not a solution to this problem.
If you want something high-level like Python, you really can't do much better than just doing Python. Racket might be worth consideration--I don't have enough experience in it to tell yet. Ruby is okay too. I don't think this space suffers from a lack of solutions. If you need a little more performance you might look at Clojure.
p.s. Your hatred of Go is kind of funny to this outsider. I may be just a stupid coder w/o a CS degree but spent a couple of decades in the trenches. Since a superior language would naturally eliminate the puny offerings of Go, I await your wisdom in the language that will save me and other mindless drones from futile coding. Please enlighten me with the language that will save me from this programming plague.