I went to a Go meetup where I use Go as a complement to Ruby. The speaker and most of the others there were using it as a more expressive/easier C. The middle

I went to a Go meetup where I use Go as a complement to Ruby. The speaker and most of the others there were using it as a more expressive/easier C. The middle ground it has carved out seems to let everyone say that their language does something better, but there seems to be a good chance that Go does a reasonable job at what their language doesn't do well (and isn't too far off to learn).