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> I don't understand why people like go. It seems to be missing a lot of features and be pretty ugly and painful.

In other words, you have been reading about it, but never tried to learn it.

Go is incredibly easy to learn and prevents bugs and cruft as much as possible, makes writing documentation and testing painless and has good performance and concurrency support.

It also has a friendly, practically-minded community.



Or: It doesn't fit the parents taste.




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