This is the same experience I had with Go, I come from a Python background, I learned how to write webapps in Go and now am comfortable writing programs in Go. I don't find the lack of generics to be an issue.
This is an interesting thing I realized after I read the postmartem report of why "rethinkdb failed".
Users want something they can get and build apps with quickly, rather than something feature perfect four years after they want to build apps.
Go essentially answered the question, "I want to write a webapp, don't want to use Python or RoR, what do I use?". It is because of the easy to understand syntax and the powerful stdlib they were able to answer that question.
The language is amazing. I don't have any idea about Rust, so won't comment on that.
This is an interesting thing I realized after I read the postmartem report of why "rethinkdb failed".
Users want something they can get and build apps with quickly, rather than something feature perfect four years after they want to build apps.
Go essentially answered the question, "I want to write a webapp, don't want to use Python or RoR, what do I use?". It is because of the easy to understand syntax and the powerful stdlib they were able to answer that question.
The language is amazing. I don't have any idea about Rust, so won't comment on that.