Most developers who use Go are satisfied with the language. But when it doesn't fit the demands of a project, the most common language developers turn to is Rust.

Go 1.18, which Google touts as "the culmination of over a decade of design", delivers a number of significant updates to the programming language that have long been requested by developers.

Go was first released as an open source programming language in 2009, and it’s had its ups and downs over the past 15 years.

Perhaps this is why I see the ethos behind the programming language Go as both a rebuke and a potential corrective to my generation of strivers. Its creators hail from an era when programmers had ...