The Go Programming Language

Why is it getting more popular? Is this the new Java minus the virtual machine? Is it overadvertised as shit? Is it shit?

Suppose you have an overhyped bullshit. Now you have Go.

getting more popular
[citation needed]

>Why is it getting more popular
Google pet project

>>1
1. Hipster will always be hipster. 2. No, PHP is. This is more like Pascal of C, or the Ruby thing. 3. Indeed. 4. Indeed.

We had this thread so many times, you should take a look at all of them:
https://dis.4chan.org/prog/subject.txt

It is the ultimate brand-name language: made by Rob Pike and Ken Thompson at Google, it's gotta be good! I guess it's very much like Java in that regard, having been made by Guy Steele at Sun as an Object Oriented language.

It's like Java in other aspects as well, such as having to cast to void* Object interface{} due to its lack of generics.