Applied Go

Go has a small language specification, but does this make it a language for minimalist development?

Language criticism can be useful if it doesn't decline into mere nitpicking for the sake of it.

A formula that describes a picture of itself? How is that possible...?!

'We ported this app to Go and see a 200% performance increase!' Just by porting the app line by line to Go? Probably not.

A proposed new syntax for error checking promises clearer code, but the syntax may lead to carelessly letting context-free errors bubble up the chain.

My conclusions from using an open-soruce AI coding assistant (Continue) in VSCodium

Paradigms are too coarse-grained to accurately describe a language. It is better to examine the language's features and the domains in which it is used.

Garbage-collected languages aren't suitable for real-time apps? They are, for most flavors of 'real time'.

Go is a non-magical language. The term 'non-magical' deserves a closer look.