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To be fair, I haven't used it since 2011 and I'm sure a lot has changed. I've read plenty of valid criticisms however which (after having used it for several pr

by dvt 14y ago

To be fair, I haven't used it since 2011 and I'm sure a lot has changed. I've read plenty of valid criticisms however which (after having used it for several projects) deterred me from using it again. For a project a couple of years ago, I needed to use OpenCV and the Go bindings were quite immature. I just switched to C++ (for that project) and never really returned. But now that I think about it, whenever people that are interested in being introduced to coding (it happens a lot on campus) ask me "what language should I learn?" I've never answered Go. I'm not sure if most people would.

NateDad 14y ago
While I don't think it's really a harsh criticism to say that Go shouldn't be your first language... I'd be interested to know what you think a good first language would be. Certainly not C or C++, if you're discounting Go. I'd also discount Java and C#, since they're syntactically quite similar to Go. Certainly not erlang. So... python? ruby? While I like those languages, I feel that the lack of a compiler is a pretty big hindrance to new programmers. Statically typed languages can catch many errors that produce some truly strange error messages in dynamic languages.