What's confusing about Go, in comparing it to other languages, is that it's a minimum orthogonal refactor of a language. It was born out smart engineers observi

What's confusing about Go, in comparing it to other languages, is that it's a minimum orthogonal refactor of a language. It was born out smart engineers observing the web and other languages for decades and thinking that they needed something low level but high level enough. It's built staring precisely at the past two decades. C, C++, Java, Python, and an appreciation of formal specs over frameworks form Go. Most languages to perform professionally in you have to know what not to do (not use C++ templates too much, not give into verbosity in hierarchies in Java, not use the GIL, etc.). In Go, because it is a relatively clean refactor, you don't have to worry about this. But you do have to invent your own smaller libraries for what you want to do sometimes. Because it's a younger language. This is good though if you like programming and stacking lego pieces on you way to stacking paper.