Golang’s curse, as Java’s before it, is the accessibility and appeal to a bigger group of programmers – OK let me not pull punches here, let’s call it like it is: more mediocre ones.
This inevitably leads to an explosion of popularity, writing a lot of frameworks and tools in the said language, and then 10-15 years later the industry is horrified by the ecosystem and the software quality, someone invents the next “accessible” language, everyone is all excited how “the new stuff fixed 10% of the problems of the old stuff” (let’s get real, that’s what it is very often) and the cycle repeats.
(sighs)
Until people actually make declarative programming work – and have it compile directly to machine code, or maybe better yet, to a highly successful language in terms of a compiler like Rust, OCaml or Ada / Forth – then I don’t think the area at large will at all progress.
I am about to hit 42 and it’s all just repeating in front of my eyes and makes me hopeless. We as a collective just don’t learn… 