I used Go (didn’t choose it exactly) at an olds job of mine 4 or 5 years ago. I was definitely the most senior and very likely the best developer at the company

I used Go (didn’t choose it exactly) at an olds job of mine 4 or 5 years ago. I was definitely the most senior and very likely the best developer at the company. Organizationally, many of their backend services were Java-based using Spring Boot, although there were a few Python and NodeJS ones as well. My general observation was: The people who called themselves Java programmers or Python programmers or JavaScript programmers complained a ton about Go. The people who weren’t committed to any particular language didn’t seem to mind at all. (I am in the whatever-language-let’s-write-code camp myself) We weren’t in love with it. I don’t use it for spare time projects (woo Common Lisp with SBCL). The only super positive feedback I really remember is “wow! It’s so easy to just walk through from when the program starts to knowing where all the endpoints are and where you can find the source!” which isn’t so much praise of Go but an indictment of Spring Boot.