If you want to try Go, now is a great time. We just announced Go 1 release candidate 1, which you can try here: <a href="http://weekly.golang.org/" rel="nofollow">http://weekly.golang.org/</a>
Welcome to today's installment of "Go Post!" This time, we will be visiting the rebuttal to both "Go is amazing!" and "Why I will never use Go." What insights will our daring author bring? Find out now!
Of course this article is a reaction to all the polarized good vs bad discussion that is going on.<p>Perhaps people should just think of Go as one of those languages to learn in order to broaden their programming experience, not whether it's going to be the new rockstar programming trend. It's almost as if the HN community is trying to vote for the web stack that is sanctioned after rails then node.js!<p>Go's differences to other languages are enough for it to qualify as a language to learn as one of the many languages to try out.
Do languages eventually get better over time? If that's true, I would be expecting some fossil languages to become less attractive over time as living languages like python and ruby become "better" for your given needs.
Java, SOAP, and XML are still cool and new? OK, as much as I like to rail against the whole hipster crowd that has taken over programming ... That is a bridge too far even for me. Sorry.
I think the language features are neat but who wants to be beholden to google and no one else. We're not even sure how much they use Go, just leave it to them I say.