My take on this has long been that Go created a lot of confusion by initially selling itself as a better C++ when it is actually much closer to a better Python

My take on this has long been that Go created a lot of confusion by initially selling itself as a better C++ when it is actually much closer to a better Python (outside of the data science use cases). Edit to add: Or a better / easier to deploy / less reviled / hipper Java. Go is a good and valuable language, but I think perhaps more than any language I know of, a lot of people go into it expecting it to be something that it is not.