I wanted to convey that I'm torn. I like Go and I feel like it was made for people like me: Working programmers who want to get stuff done.
And in a sense I am, I'm attracted to Go, but there are just enough things that are stumble blocks for me to keep using it or even consider using it in a professional manner over other options. Not because it is a bad language or because I consider its users bad, quite the contrary.
In a sense it doesn't scale with my abilities, but that doesn't mean at all that they are special or golden. It's just a set of things that I absorbed and tried with experience or learned from books and filtered and adopted (dumbed down) for my needs.
I think you might be right with:
> "the language isn't a fit for your skills or preferences"
Maybe should have worded it that way. For me Go is really good 80% of the time and then super awkward to use for the 20% where I cannot write the code in the way I think. It blocks me from exploring those thoughts if that makes sense. And that makes me unhappy.
I wanted to convey that I'm torn. I like Go and I feel like it was made for people like me: Working programmers who want to get stuff done.
And in a sense I am, I'm attracted to Go, but there are just enough things that are stumble blocks for me to keep using it or even consider using it in a professional manner over other options. Not because it is a bad language or because I consider its users bad, quite the contrary.
In a sense it doesn't scale with my abilities, but that doesn't mean at all that they are special or golden. It's just a set of things that I absorbed and tried with experience or learned from books and filtered and adopted (dumbed down) for my needs.
I think you might be right with:
> "the language isn't a fit for your skills or preferences"
Maybe should have worded it that way. For me Go is really good 80% of the time and then super awkward to use for the 20% where I cannot write the code in the way I think. It blocks me from exploring those thoughts if that makes sense. And that makes me unhappy.