This article literally says that "your business will die" if it isn't using Go. I think we can all agree that's a little over the top. Go has hit a bit of a sw

This article literally says that "your business will die" if it isn't using Go. I think we can all agree that's a little over the top. Go has hit a bit of a sweet spot in some ways. Static compilation, a good stdlib, decent performance and good tooling have all contributed to that. It's also quite a shitty language in other ways. Dependencies are a mess. The lack of generics and associated functional primitives makes some code stupid and repetitive. Magical builtins like append() and delete() are a bad smell. Error handling is quite poor. There are others - the outcome being that it can be quite an irritating language to develop in. It's obviously been successful in the areas cited because it's better than the other available options. Nobody really wants to use C(++) for things like devops tools, nor Java, Ruby or Python. That's a great use case. I'm optimistic that some of the worst parts of Go will slowly be fixed as it develops, and will make it much more pleasant to use. Until then, I'm not confident it's going to dominate outside of those areas it's currently used. Of course, I could be entirely wrong… I guess time will tell.