the language has always been beautiful and a pleasure to use, but the surrounding aspects like a good stdlib, build system and package manager were pretty bad,

the language has always been beautiful and a pleasure to use, but the surrounding aspects like a good stdlib, build system and package manager were pretty bad, and have only been improving in the last few years. and now that things have improved in that direction, the lack of good multicore support weighs against it. it's still a great language though, and as a casual user i'm pretty optimistic about its future.