My opinion after using go professionally for ~2 years and repeatedly running into gotchas such as https://go.dev/blog/loopvar-preview https://go.dev/blog/loopva

My opinion after using go professionally for ~2 years and repeatedly running into gotchas such as https://go.dev/blog/loopvar-preview https://go.dev/blog/loopvar-preview is that it's just not a good language. A lot of people praise it for it's "simplicity" and "explicitness" but frankly, even just figuring out whether something is being passed by reference or value is often complicated. If you're writing code where you never care about that, sure. But for any real project it's not actually better or simpler than C++ or Python.