I would argue that it has the potential to be more product than some dynamic languages. Not trying to start a pissing contest, to be clear. Some languages have

I would argue that it has the potential to be more product than some dynamic languages. Not trying to start a pissing contest, to be clear. Some languages have a lot of mental overhead (JavaScript being an easy example), which I don't think matters how seasoned you are - I think it's pretty much a constant in that language. So even if you're a seasoned developer, I think it's very possible that there are other languages which are objectively more productive for seasoned developers. So, which languages Go is more productive than is not something I can say - but I think it's a quantifiable thing. There is a nice middle ground between rigid safety of something like Rust, and careless abandon of some extremely dynamic languages. Go has a nice middle ground, but whether it's the "perfect" spot I'm not sure. Hell, I'm not even willing to say it's objectively more productive than X languages. I will say that for me, personally, it's far more productive than JavaScript (Node) or Python. I can whack out more code in Python, faster, but any moderately sized project starts to run into maintenance overhead, and then suddenly I wish I was in a more rigid language. Middleground is good here, I think. Though, I will say that if a language like Python gets some nice typing tools like they're working on - especially behavior based typing like Go's interfaces, Rust's Traits, etc - I think that language could really shine for larger projects. Prototyping speed and maintainability is a big boon.