Having spent a little time with Go, I ended up feeling like it was both better and worse than Ruby. In many ways it's many of the things that I want from a lang

Having spent a little time with Go, I ended up feeling like it was both better and worse than Ruby. In many ways it's many of the things that I want from a language - static typing, fast complier, pretty sensible defaults and so on. A lot of things I wish Ruby did, Go does great. I think Go does really well in tooling, but it doesn't feel as great in syntax or language features that I would really like. The two big ones I wish Go had were named parameters on functions, and immutable data structures. It's probably a blub paradox thing, but my ideal language has immutable data structures and named function parameters. Kotlin, Scala, and Swift all kind of nailed these features, but Go has not. For me, named parameters and a little verbosity goes a long way to allow me to communicate intent in my code. Immutability allows me to have a built in sense of safety that once the data is set, it stays that way. In my experience, a whole class of problems goes away when you have those two features (alongside the many other features we'd expect form a language like Go). What I felt from Go is that a year ago when I was playing with it, that they didn't care much about either of those two features, which is fine, but it keeps go from being my ideal language. Swift I wish was a bit more general purpose, Kotlin and Scala don't compile as fast as Go, and Ruby doesn't have a compiler to do some of the checking I wish it would. Go's fast compile times with something like Ruby's syntax and a feature set similar to Kotlin/Swift would be darn near perfect. For me, there is no perfect language.