> JS, PHP, and Go are almost exclusively used for web-related tasks JS is used for GUI tasks too, so your point seems totally arbitrary. Java is heavily used

> JS, PHP, and Go are almost exclusively used for web-related tasks JS is used for GUI tasks too, so your point seems totally arbitrary. Java is heavily used to write servers and services as well. > I hope that explains why I don't see Go as comparable to complex, high-level languages - and in no way in competition with them, in fact. Javascript and PHP are complex high-level languages as well. Your point doesn't make any sense. Go is the way it is because it was designed that people who rejected 30 years of type theory. But now they have a problem, because they repeated the same mistakes as C and now they are planing to break everything with Go2? they just quietly admitted they were wrong, it's time to admit you are wrong as well.