An Honest Review of Go

4 months ago

Go's concurrency model with Goroutines and Channels is well-integrated and avoids the 'colored functions' problem.
Go's type system is simple, using struct embedding instead of complex inheritance, and interfaces are implicitly satisfied.
The syntax of Go is praised for its simplicity, including type annotations and visibility based on letter case.
A major drawback is the lack of proper enums, leading to workarounds with constants that don't ensure exhaustiveness.
Go lacks immutability for non-compile-time constants, forcing the use of mutable variables or functions to protect data.
Error handling in Go is verbose and relies on the `error` interface, which can obscure useful error information.
The absence of sum types and enums in Go makes error handling less robust compared to languages like Rust.

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