I used Go at work to write some utilities which extracted and manipulated values from large text files. It compiled fast and ran fast (at least, compared to the

I used Go at work to write some utilities which extracted and manipulated values from large text files. It compiled fast and ran fast (at least, compared to the Python it was replacing). However, I learned that Go is a language conceived for Programming in the Large, and I found out (once again, thanks Java) that I don't like languages for Programming in the Large. But if I liked that sort of thing it'd probably be one of my first choices.