I echo this. I've been exposed to some Go at work recently, and Rust on my free time. I've been learning both over last few months. Go is like C. More like C t

I echo this. I've been exposed to some Go at work recently, and Rust on my free time. I've been learning both over last few months. Go is like C. More like C than any other mainstream language I use. IMO this is bad. C is very verbose and hard to read. Rust is more like C++. Close to hardware but many high level language features. I could rant a lot about what I don't like about Go, but it boils down to this. No generics, bad package system, bad error handling, bad code generation, bad GC, limiting syntax encourages copy paste and bad abstractions, defying common conventions to be cute (like capitalization in variables), mediocre standard library. I love Rust more as I get better. I already hate Go for some of the above reasons, I wouldn't even use it if it wasn't for work. Google hypes Go like crazy, I'm convinced that's the only reason it's popular. I think there's many better options, even Java, that don't have many of the shortcomings listed above