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The go devs are very careful to avoid mention of all the other languages that compete in the same space and are significantly better.


Indeed. Where is Haskell? OCaml? Rust? Scala? C#?


bradfitz created that graph from his subjective experience, and he was talking about the state of things in 2009.

FWIW, here's the Go project lead congratulating Rust on their recent birthday: https://twitter.com/_rsc/status/732379957129826305


Good point, but in the end it's a subjective graph.


I'd love to hear about those languages.


Erlang and Ada are two that I consider superior to Go.


Hey, they are Google! Java 6 is probably the most "modern" thing they can think of!




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