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> You misunderstand my argument.

Apparently. I have no idea why JavaScript's position in the browser is relevant at all to the point that being able to ship in a language isn't evidence that its featureset is ideal.

I do invite you to argue the point further, though. And please continue to ask questions like this again:

"Why are you using Go? Are you solving a real problem?"

Yes, please do imagine out loud that everyone who's critical of Go is just not building real software in it. Hell, follow your "argument" to its natural consequence: anyone not using your personal flavor of Blub is probably just farting around.



Ah, sweet delicious sarcasm. Always the last resort.

There is absolutely nothing drawing anyone who doesn't want to use Go into using it. There are zero external forces or dependencies that are making you build solutions in Go.

So when you come telling a tall tale of your peril with Go, it just stinks. Do you understand? You can, from the outside looking in, have criticisms of the language, but when you try to add authority to your claims by manufacturing great experience, it sounds absurd.

The relevance of JavaScript -- and this really doesn't seem that difficult, though I think you're trying to be difficult -- is that, to reiterate, people have to bear it regardless of their feelings about it, so there are a lot of people who despise JavaScript but ply their trade in it daily. There is zero parallel with Go, where there is absolutely no reason for anyone to ever make use of it if it doesn't offer some significant advantage to their project.




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