If you're looking to get into the k8s space Go would be the way to... go. Purely as a language, Go is worse than TypeScript by a lot (yes, even with generics),

If you're looking to get into the k8s space Go would be the way to... go. Purely as a language, Go is worse than TypeScript by a lot (yes, even with generics), yet has a really well made standard library that more than makes up for it in many regards, and tooling thats similarly much better and pleasant to work with. If you're looking to learn more about systems programming as well as a bunch of advanced PL features that make development a joy, go for Rust. Besides being an excellent language, the library ecosystem and tooling are really well made as well (great documentation culture, tools work predictably and cover both simple and complex / larger use cases e.g. monorepos, etc.) I've decided to learn Rust. I had some small amount of hobbyist C++ development experience before, and the learning curve isn't as bad as it looks, and its definitely better than something like Haskell due to the excellent documentation resources. It took a couple of weeks, about 1h-2h per day to get past the initial "wall-like" learning curve for borrowing and ownership (its important to preserve during this period) I've refused to get into Golang as a matter of principle for a long time. I saw the language as a step backwards that deliberately ignores a lot of things we've learned in the past few decades in the name of "simplicity". While I acknowledge that the ecosystem as a whole is powerful, I'd like a tool that doesn't deliberately limit me without giving anything in return (lack of algebraic data types means reduced safety and more bugs due to inability to make illegal states unrepresentable, for example), all while trying to paint that as some kind of benefit. However, I reserve the right to change my mind if the right opportunities present themselves (also, given that they fixed generics, once error handling is made closer to Rust/Swift I'll be hapy to give it another... go) I think Rust has a bright future in the JS ecosystem as its already growing as both the underlying-platform-language of choice (Deno), the main compile-to-WASM language as well as the lower-level tooling language (SWC, Turborepo server, Parcel components etc). In the last space Go is also popular but I predict ultimately Rust will win because of the other factors.