The Good: Goroutines, the tools, the standard library, YAGNI to the bone, less testing needed compared with Ruby, Python et c, if you'd otherwise be using one o

The Good: Goroutines, the tools, the standard library, YAGNI to the bone, less testing needed compared with Ruby, Python et c, if you'd otherwise be using one of those. The Bad: Hard to keep DRY, writing testable code can require a bit more planning that one may be used to, frustrating newbie experience[1] [1] go command errors if run after installing if you don't configure it (set proper env vars) first, tools that are basically essential to having a good experience with the language aren't packaged with it and have to be tracked down individually (probably someone's written a nice shell script that takes care of that, but it's silly that that was necessary)