I love Go and agree with everything you said. I was never good at computer science-y "language theory" type stuff. I believe you when you say that Haskell or F

I love Go and agree with everything you said. I was never good at computer science-y "language theory" type stuff. I believe you when you say that Haskell or Forth are better languages - I just can't use them worth a damn. Go is a practical language for me - it's not beautiful, or elegant, the type system is only 70% there, can be verbose, etc, etc, but it allows me to put my code in production and have a very high level of confidence that I won't get a phone call at 4 am. I don't have that confidence with Ruby, or Python, or Javascript. I find that Go is very easy to pick up, and hard to really fuck up. Most people at my company can read my code and I can read theirs, which is mind-boggling to me. Go somehow achieved what I thought was impossible - to read and grok quickly other people's code. Go sees was developed by "engineer" types - not "language nerds". And, yes, it shows. FWIW, I also love Rust and C, but will choose Go over Rust any day when my productivity and dead-lines are more important than close-to-C performance.