I’m successfully using Go and agree with the author at the same time. For me it’s not a choice between Go and Rust- Rust is not as productive for high level code because every API maximizes performance.

Since this article was written Go introduced generics which does solve some of the complaints. The rest I mostly solve with linters, libraries, and conventions.

Go has a syntax that is well designed (arguably one of the best) if you’re aiming for familiarity with C style syntax in an imperative language. Other than that it’s a poorly designed language with by far the best engineering work having gone into things that aren’t actually the language per say (cross compilation, asynchronous runtime, GC, module system, super fast builds, etc). They wrote an ACM Queue article essentially stating that: https://cacm.acm.org/research/the-go-programming-language-an...