Go, the good, bad and ugly

Wed, 06 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Go, sometimes called Golang to make it searchable, was born at Google out of frustration with the languages already on offer. The brief was unusual: build something deliberately small. Where most languages accumulate features over time, Go’s designers spent their energy leaving things out. The result is a language you can learn in a weekend and read at a glance, and one that occasionally makes you wish it would just let you do the clever thing. Simplicity is Go’s defining virtue and its defining limitation, often in the very same line of code. Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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Go, the good, bad and ugly