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Different strokes for different folks. Used Go for ~5 years, would be happy to never use it again. Typescript is in a similar bucket, lots of professional usage (sadly still using it) would also be happy to never touch it again.

Kotlin/JVM became my hammer and I currently don't feel like there are any gripes I have about it except maybe that the Gradle/Maven dichotomy and associated anxiety that build systems give people makes it harder to sell people on it.

Otherwise language feature wise and runtime wise it's about as good as you are going to ever need for 99.99% of (non-frontend) use cases. You have C++/Rust/Zig to fill in the few places where a runtime isn't viable.



I'm happy you found your hammer as well! :D




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