I definitely went into the article thinking you have to be an idiot, but you exposed a lot of reasonable issues that can certainly bubble up depending on the ty

I definitely went into the article thinking you have to be an idiot, but you exposed a lot of reasonable issues that can certainly bubble up depending on the type of application you are working on. I primarily work on web servers but even I've noticed a handful of the issues in present. For example, the net/http package is not all that great, in my mind. It has a lot of downsides, and the timing out section really calls this out quite well. The native functions pretend to have sensible defaults, but in any production-ready application those are all discarded and you'll need to create custom clients to handle the different types of requests you are making. I will say I'm a fan of Go. I think it has made my life much simpler in that it was probably the first language to expose me to the world away from "magic" - with Java being my first language, frameworks are far too rampant and Go helped de-mystify a lot of that for me. But as I've progressed to learn other languages, I think this is less a strength of Go and maybe moreso just a negative of Java/Ruby/Python oftenntimes. I've not played around much with Rust but I've heard great things. As much as I wanted to think this was just a Rust fanboy attacking Go, I think your article was quite well written - and also helped me question "why do I even care?" I didn't write Go, I just happened to land a job that uses it where I excelled well, and I think in my early career that's largely because Go is extremely beginner friendly. It's a tool disjoint from me - I wouldn't be upset at someone if they told me they don't like hammers made by DeWalt, because it's not an attack on me. Same with Go, or any other tool we use to do our jobs. Now that I'm a much more senior engineer I find I use Go out of convenience purely due to expertise, but I've been itching to work with something new. I think for my next side project I'll take a stab at Rust. Anyway - great article! I'm happy I read it (even though in the beginning you tell me not to, hehe).