Go is great in many ways. But hiring Go programmer in Bangkok is going to cost around 50000 THB per month, which is quite expensive.
For proprietary software, I won't use it since I can't afford to pay that much.
For community-based software, I won't use it, since there will be less than 2 people who will contribute.
@muesli What kind of software that you conducted an experiment?
@veer66 All kinds of projects within the last two decades. Here's a non-exhaustive list of open source stuff I either started or contribute to: https://chris.de/projects/
@muesli I made the almost the same program in JS (https://github.com/veer66/wordcut) and Go (https://github.com/veer66/mapkha).
@veer66 Hah, nice comparison! I guess those languages might have a different target audience with different needs, though.
Also, without a doubt, JavaScript has the biggest developer community at this point. It just doesn't say much about the quality of those contributors in my experience.
@muesli I've seen some low quality JS, but I've never seen any in pull request.
@veer66
That's quite the opposite experience I've had: finding good Go open source contributors is easier than with any other language.