Go and Java/C# (if you forgo all the OOP nonsense) aren't much harder to write than Python, and you get far better performance. Not all the way to Rust level, bur close enough for most things with far less complexity.
As an AI engineer I kinda wish the community had landed on Go or something in the early days. C# would also be great, although it tends to be pretty verbose.
Python just has too strong network effects. In the early days it was between python and lua (anyone remember torchlua?). GoLang was very much still getting traction and in development.
Theres also the strong association of golang to google, c# to microsoft, and java to oracle...
Yeah that bothers me too, but it's damn hard to get away from these days. Most language projects have significant corporate involvement one way or the other.
Go is criminally underrated in my opinion. It ticks so many boxes I'm surprised it hasn't seen more adoption.
It ticks many boxes for me on the surface, but I've read a few articles that critique some of its design choices.
Rust really ticks the "it got all the design choices right" boxes, but fighting the borrow checker and understand smart pointers, lifetimes, and dispatch can be a serious cognitive handicap for me.
No languages are perfect, they all make tradeoffs. I just like a lot of the ones Go made.
Go and Rust try to solve very different problems. Rust takes on a lot of complexity to provide memory safety without a garbage collector, which is fine, but also unnecessary for a lot of problems.
Why go? That language has absolutely no expressive power, while you surely at least want to add together two vectors/matrices in AI with the + operator.
