Go will never be as easy to bootstrap a new application the way one can with Python I strongly disagree. Python has a big problem with dependency management, packaging and containerizing. There is no standard, just tools that have their own quirks; the containers are usually big and if you're not careful your application might break for a missing 'apt package' and if you want to serve a web app you need to choose and properly configure a web server such as uvicorn. With Go you have the module that you manage with in the go cli, the webserver in the standard library and it takes literally 30 seconds to bootstrap a dockerized hello world. More on reddit.com

Will google Go use less resources than Python and Java on Appengine? Are the instance startup times for go faster than Java's and Python's startup times? Is the go program uploaded as binaries or More on stackoverflow.com

I'm going to deviate from the other comments here and say that Go is a fine first language to learn (well, at least in theory). It's got a few things going for it: Super easy setup (literally just download VSCode with the Go extension and you're done) It teaches you the right way to do OOP instead of every other OO language out there where the first thing they teach you is inheritance and as soon as you learn real OO design you realize inheritance it always bad. It teaches you pointers without the footguns that C/C++ give you with memory management/pointer arithmetic/array-pointer-duality. It's very readable and so it's good for developing taste in programming. But it's still not great for the very first language. 99% of the tutorials for Go are for people already familiar with programming and won't cover the fundamentals or go into the CS aspects that would help a lot. You're just expected to know what a method is and how it's different than a function and how interfaces enable dynamic dispatch of methods. You're just expected to understand encapsulation and how exports are your visibility modifiers. You're just expected to know how to turn Go's primitive types into data structures and what kinds of algorithms work with them. Really that's the main reason. There's tons of "intro to programming" / "intro to CS" stuff for C, Java, Python, Basic, and even Lisp, because those are the languages schools have typically used to teach programming and CS topics. Go doesn't have a ton of those kinds of courses. More on reddit.com

beautiful is better than ugly literally the first one is kinda the opposite in Go More on reddit.com