Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages

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On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 16:47:04 UTC, Neia Neutuladh 
wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:37:30 +0000, Bienlein wrote:
>> This is all true, but you need to keep in mind that Go had no 
>> real package manager for a long time. There was the "go get" 
>> command which loaded the code from some github repo in the 
>> state it was at the time when being loaded. There was no 
>> version control. Nobody really cared (the vendor stuff in Go 
>> was added with Go 1.10 or 1.11). Goroutines were the killer 
>> feature of the language that paved the way, because this was 
>> badly needed for writing server-side software.
>
> Go has several killer features:
> * It's got a GC and yet is endorsed by one of the major people 
> behind C.
> This helps people get over their fear of garbage collection and 
> into
> appreciating the benefits.
> * It's also got "pointers". They're actually references with 
> pointer-ish
> syntax, but that makes people coming from C/C++ more 
> comfortable.
> * It's not Java, and it's not slower than Java.
> * There was a team in Google that would rewrite old, crufty C++ 
> code in
> Go. Was Go a benefit? Maybe in some ways, but the major benefit 
> was a
> rewrite that the owning team didn't have to do. That earned 
> goodwill among
> thousands of developers attached to Go as a language.
> * It's backed by Google (in large part because of that 
> goodwill).
>
> I don't think fibers are all that important for Go's success. 
> Maybe for people who would have looked at node.js but didn't 
> want to use javascript?

Go is garbage and it's only popular because Google is behind it.

It has absolutely nothing to do with the language itself.