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This is true, but even today in 2018, Golang still suffers from the dependency-management hell, the notorious GOPATH, and many other issues it should not have being almost a decade old! Even Rust, which some call "lower-level language", which it is not, has Cargo after it learned from Ruby and Node how important is to have easy package management, and being able to install a new project without knowing almost anything about the language.


totally fair, but Go did stablize the language itself. i can with zero effort and 100% confidence run any old Go code i have lying around. that's pretty awesome.


> i can with zero effort and 100% confidence run any old Go code i have lying around. that's pretty awesome.

I think you can do that in Rust too (post 1.0). What's more impressive is that canonical go code from five years ago is still canonical.


whether that's impressive or not is very much a matter of perspective -- it is certainly remarkable! :-)




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