> It's more like you can't write something really complex in Go Have you recently checked out the bigger projects that are currently being written in Go? You'd

> It's more like you can't write something really complex in Go Have you recently checked out the bigger projects that are currently being written in Go? You'd be surprised... > Try write a large LOB app in pure Go or a fully featured CRM. Woah. Have you tried doing that in C, C++ or Rust? Has anybody? Every language has it's strengths and weaknesses. Sure it's possible to do so in them - but is it a good idea? Not necessarily. I'm not going to write a database engine in Python - but we have timeseries databases being written in Go. > Go short comings will show up pretty fast. Every language has shortcomings. Go's major thing seen as a shortcoming is the classic "lack of generics", which arguably is true to some extend - but not it's GC. The thing is - Go's strong points have become clear long before these shortcomings you're talking about. The entire ops-space jumped on it because it solved a few problems plaguing their tools: memory overhead, slowness, dependencies, hard to make portable. Pretty much every major new project related to infrastructure is created in Go. One of the biggest attractions of Go is it's ability to create programs that perform a lot better than the same thing written in Ruby or Python, which then again allows developers to undertake more ambitious projects.