Most of my work is C++ but I've also used Go a fair bit since Go 1.5. I like Go a lot. The C++ crowd (including myself) keeps trying to make things that are t

Most of my work is C++ but I've also used Go a fair bit since Go 1.5. I like Go a lot. The C++ crowd (including myself) keeps trying to make things that are trivial in Go easier in C++ but the best efforts still look like a mess. I think the lightweight/green threads model of concurrency wins over others (threads, processes) and is incredibly difficult to get right in C++. Channels are also very useful and difficult to get right in C++. While C++ with some aid from Boost can be a very safe language it ends up being a lot harder to write and read with all sorts of [](){} -> hacked up conventions that are a result of backwards compatibility. I find the test infrastructure in Go to also be very pleasant and easy to use. Stuff you need to go to extremes of C++ to test are just trivial to do in Go. Things I would like to see improved: - Package management. I think "go get" was an interesting idea that is basically a fail for anything except the most trivial of situations. Vendoring is not a great solution either IMO. Perhaps some idea that manages package versions through local git repositories can work better since a git repository is a better representation of the version history of packages. - I didn't like the compile speed loss we took when the compiler code base moved to Go. I'm not quite sure where it stand right now but one of the things that I liked about Go from the beginning is lightning quick builds. - In my usage there seem to a few quirks in the language including the various scoping weirdness and the declare and assign operator := ... I frequently end up with code that re-uses the same variable such that the first instance is := and the next are = which makes refactoring a pain. The compound if statement also suffers from this. The uppercase/lowercase public/private convention is also odd. You get used to it but it seems like a hacky afterthought.