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 Have you tried Go yet? Curious to hear you compare them if so. I know @fiatjaf likes Go. Not sure if he has worked with Rust. 
 Go is the “worse is better” in its purist form. Nothing exciting about it, but it works fine. The boilerplate can be a bit icky at times. I used it a lot of my previous job. 
 afaik I know I wrote the first public go library called go-twitter a day or two after go was publicly released (sometime in 2010 a think?). Found a few bugs in the json standard library.

So yeah i know of it lol 😆 I can’t help myself when it comes to shiny new langs 
 "𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻!" 
 IMHO, rust and go are the successors to Java. Rust, for systems or security, and go for scalable networking. 
 Go is also big on channels and IO-driven scheduling. 
 yeah goroutines is definitely the most interesting thing about go, implicit interfaces as well I guess? Otherwise its a bit meh. 
 "𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻!" 
 "💥💥 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻!💥💥" 
 "⚡ ℍ𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣!  ⚡" 
 "𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛! " 
 "💥💥 Happy New Year! 💥💥" 
 "𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻!" 
 "💥💥 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻!💥💥" 
 "💥💥 Happy New Year! 💥💥" 
 Their compiler cross compiles without additional setup. Probably due to static linking which I am not really a fan of in theory, in practice it makes deploying people's Github projects easy but eh, much of a muchness. 
 𝕳𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗!🥂 
 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓! 
 𝕳𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗!🥂 
 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!   🍾🍾🍾 
 𝕳𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗!🍾🥂💥 
 💥💥 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻!💥💥 
 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓!💥 
 𝐻a𝗉𝒑𝛾 𝖭𝔢𝖜 Ⲩꬲ𝕒ꭈ! 
 The “happy new year” bots beneath this post are hilarious 😂

Check your DMs Tristan, let’s chat. 
 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻! 
 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!   🍾🍾🍾 
 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!   🍾🍾🍾 
 💥 ℍ𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣!  💥 
 🥂🍾💥 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻!🥂🍾💥 
 𝕳𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗!🥂🍾 
 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻! 
 🥂🍾 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓!🥂🍾 
 ℋ𝕒p⍴𝓎 ɴҽ𝔀 𝘠℮𝑎𝚛! 
 Happy New Year! 🥂 
 𝕳𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗!🥂🍾 
 💥💥 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻!💥💥 
 ⚡ ℍ𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣!  ⚡ 
 💥 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!   💥  
 𝐻a𝗉𝒑𝛾 𝖭𝔢𝖜 Ⲩꬲ𝕒ꭈ! 
 ⚡ ℍ𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣!  ⚡ 
 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!   🥂🥂  
 𝕳𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗!🍾🥂💥 
 💥💥 Happy New Year! 💥💥 
 And lastly, look. Simple is sometimes good. Most people dont need a bazillion different features or like shiny new things, good enough and a goof ecosystem is good IMO.

Go seems to solve many people's problems as a "better Python", that I am happy for. Python is horrid for anything but scripting. 
 Go kind of seems like the middle-way.

Less advanced than Rust and C++ but still fast & compatible across so many operating systems. 
 💥 ℍ𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣!  💥 
 💥 𝕳𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗!💥 
 Happy New Year! 
 🍾 Happy New Year 🍾 
 "⚡ ℍ𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣!  ⚡" 
 "⚡ ℍ𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣!  ⚡" 
 "💥 ℍ𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣!  💥" 
 "𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!   🍾🥂💥 " 
 Looks like Scala loses to Go in every aspect except the important one. 
 🍾 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻!🍾 
 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓!🍾 
 ℋ𝕒p⍴𝓎 ɴҽ𝔀 𝘠℮𝑎𝚛! 
 💥 ℍ𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣!  💥 
 𝕳𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗! 
 Happy New Year 🥂🍾 
 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻! 
 Happy New Year! ⚡⚡⚡ 
 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!  
 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!   🍾🥂💥  
 Happy New Year! ⚡⚡⚡ 
 𝕳𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗!🍾🥂💥 
 💥💥 Happy New Year! 💥💥 
 ℍ𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣! 
 𝐻a𝗉𝒑𝛾 𝖭𝔢𝖜 Ⲩꬲ𝕒ꭈ! 
 🍾 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻!🍾 
 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓!🍾 
 ℋ𝕒p⍴𝓎 ɴҽ𝔀 𝘠℮𝑎𝚛! 
 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓!🍾 
 💥 ℍ𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣!  💥 
 𝕳𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗! 
 Happy New Year 🥂🍾 
 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻! 
 Happy New Year! ⚡⚡⚡ 
 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!  
 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!   🍾🥂💥  
 Happy New Year! ⚡⚡⚡ 
 𝕳𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗!🍾🥂💥 
 𝕳𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗! 
 Happy New Year 🥂🍾 
 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻! 
 Happy New Year! ⚡⚡⚡ 
 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!  
 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!   🍾🥂💥  
 Happy New Year! ⚡⚡⚡ 
 𝕳𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗!🍾🥂💥 
 💥💥 Happy New Year! 💥💥 
 Happy New Year 🥂🍾 
 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻! 
 Happy New Year! ⚡⚡⚡ 
 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!  
 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!   🍾🥂💥  
 Happy New Year! ⚡⚡⚡ 
 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻! 
 Happy New Year! ⚡⚡⚡ 
 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!  
 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!   🍾🥂💥  
 Happy New Year! ⚡⚡⚡ 
 ℍ𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣! 
 𝐻a𝗉𝒑𝛾 𝖭𝔢𝖜 Ⲩꬲ𝕒ꭈ!