I am an amateur dev (for 25 years), using mostly Python. I was blackmailed by a friend to try Go. Boilerplate, no exceptions, slices, ... all felt terrible. A

I am an amateur dev (for 25 years), using mostly Python. I was blackmailed by a friend to try Go. Boilerplate, no exceptions, slices, ... all felt terrible. And then I started to appreciate the typing and the fact that I had to give some thought about where to actually handle errors. I know kinda like Go, except for the weird way maps are handled, and the lack of types in errors (compared to Python where it is fantastic). There are certainly pros and cons (I am not a good enough developer to have advanced thoughts on that) but the cross compilation makes a lot of things easier when deploying self-contained executables.