While I completely agree with the "janitor" sentiment... and for Newton's sake I feel like Wall-E daily...
> Telling me that I have to keep using a tool with known issues that we have to process or patches to fix would be super frustrating.
All tools have known issues. It's just that some have way more issues than others. And some may hurt more than others.
Go has reached an interesting compromise. It has some elegant constructs and interesting design choices (like static compilation which also happens to be fast). The language is simple, so much so that you can learn the basics and start writing useful stuff in a weekend. But it is even more limiting than Java. A Lisp, this thing is not. You can't get very creative – which is an outstanding property for 'enterprises'. Boring, verbose code that makes you want to pull your teeth out is the name of the game.
And I'm saying this as someone who dragged a team kicking and screaming from Python to Go. That's on them – no-one has written a single line of unit tests in years, so now they at least get a whiny compiler which will do basic sanity checks before things blow up in prod. Things still 'panic', but less frequently.
> Telling me that I have to keep using a tool with known issues that we have to process or patches to fix would be super frustrating.
All tools have known issues. It's just that some have way more issues than others. And some may hurt more than others.
Go has reached an interesting compromise. It has some elegant constructs and interesting design choices (like static compilation which also happens to be fast). The language is simple, so much so that you can learn the basics and start writing useful stuff in a weekend. But it is even more limiting than Java. A Lisp, this thing is not. You can't get very creative – which is an outstanding property for 'enterprises'. Boring, verbose code that makes you want to pull your teeth out is the name of the game.
And I'm saying this as someone who dragged a team kicking and screaming from Python to Go. That's on them – no-one has written a single line of unit tests in years, so now they at least get a whiny compiler which will do basic sanity checks before things blow up in prod. Things still 'panic', but less frequently.