> why would anyone bother using a language in production if it lacks fundamental things taken for granted like dependency management and stable testing framewor

> why would anyone bother using a language in production if it lacks fundamental things taken for granted like dependency management and stable testing frameworks/practices? That one's easy. Go is a brilliant low-level language. You hack on servers, tooling, IPC, batch pipelines, etc. Nothing that people endlessly keep pondering about, from "deps" to generics to gopath to "practices", really hinders the enthusiastic hacker much from just getting busy with it, and producing. A Go coder doesn't envy the "spoiled Rails developer" because he feels blessed by a low-level systems language that actually has prim types other than int, sane pointers, concurrency primitives, utf8, heck simply strings to begin with, fast compilation times, no header-includes mess, etc.. =)