Impressions of Go
This claim: "Python/Ruby/Javascript: my experience is that large systems are difficult to maintain in these languages, as the dynamic typing makes it difficult to refactor large codebases without introducing errors in poorly tested areas of a repository"<p>-- is unfounded. Even though there may be some good reasons why one might use Go instead of C/C++, I find it hard to justify using Go instead of Python/Ruby/JS/Java (the only criticism of Java - that it's verbose and hard to tune - is questionable as well). I've said this before. I like Go. I contributed to Go. I've used Go and I still use it from time to time. But much like D, I don't think it has a niche.<p>There are magnitudes more libraries and resources available for Python/Ruby/JS/Java -- thus far, it's been more than enough to sway me into using those languages (mostly JS/Java) instead of Go.