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Go is actually pretty close to the perfect language to me -- for "general purpose" computing, at least. Sure, it's plain and somewhat boring to write but it doesn't make me that much less productive. Error handling and generics are the only other features that I want, so I'm really looking forward to Go 2, if that ever comes around. I would be happy to see Go declared "feature-complete" at that point, similar to Elixir [1].

But even then, if I want to have fun and feel like I'm learning new things while I code, I'll always use something else that's more interesting.

[1]: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2019/06/24/elixir-v1-9-0-releas...



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