I've Soured on Go

a year ago

Go's low abstraction ceiling makes it easy for teams with varying skill levels to produce homogenous code.
Go is 'good enough' in performance but struggles outside backend services.
Go's WASM support is bloated and inefficient, making it unsuitable for Cloudflare Workers and similar ecosystems.
Go lacks a Web UI library, requiring JavaScript for web app development.
The author is moving to TypeScript for ease of use and Rust for performance-critical sections.
TypeScript's ecosystem has improved significantly with better tooling, mature libraries, and performance close to Go.
Rust is becoming more portable and could potentially replace TypeScript for full-stack web applications in the future.
The future of programming languages may shift towards those optimized for LLMs rather than human readability.
LLMs currently excel at TypeScript, making it the preferred choice over Rust for now.

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