My background - self-taught in C, wrote BASIC to make money in High School, learned Java (and used professionally). Eventually ended up with Ruby (Rails). I dev

My background - self-taught in C, wrote BASIC to make money in High School, learned Java (and used professionally). Eventually ended up with Ruby (Rails). I developed my own LISP-like for many years. Now most of my hobby programming is in Go. I really like it's connection to C. You feel the connection through to lower level programming. I also like the emphasis Go both emphasizes data structures and is first-class with functions. The combination of the two are really easy for me to navigate, but extremely expressive too. It feels like a language that is very grounded in the fundamentals as I see them, but with a modern outlook and tooling. It feels amazing to write a web-based application with the power of C, but feeling confident you're not going to blow your own foot off every step of the way.