Go appears to have a shorter time, because you don't realize how much higher-level stuff you're just expected to do The Right Way, with no support from the language or libraries. So you're free to think you've finished learning Go, but then the actual learning begins.
Agreed. Worked with a senior who "learned go in a week" then faffed around for months (to prod! because he had the implicit trust of management because he was "a genius") deploying broken software with tons of concurrency bugs because he didn't know how to manage shared state.
Even accounting for what you say, it's a short learning curve compared to most languages. It's not like there's any programming language in the world where you just read the manual through once and, boom, instantly you know exactly how to architect a multi-person-century project right out of the gate or something.
Hmm, that’s a bit of a straw man you’re making here. No one is arguing better languages will magic complex architecture efforts, we’re talking about basic state management here... garden variety implementation details
State in the context of concurrent programming is not a "garden variety implementation detail." It's the Great White Whale of our industry. No language does it especially well. I have my favorites in this arena, but it's still hunting a large sea mammal with a harpoon. What you're suggesting is essentially avoiding hunting it altogether. We're not there yet.
This is very true. I recently ported large portions of Go code to Rust, and while it was somewhat of a steep learning curve and a fight with the compiler, in the end I felt very comfortable that the result is correct, fast, and had good abstractions.
Go was so "easy" that I was immediately productive, but this resulted in often suboptimal and messy code that I had to refactor over and over again due to concurrency, abstraction, or performance issues.
Right, it's a false economy. Though, to be fair, the Java/C# ecosystem has the same problem to an even greater degree. Not to mention popular "dynamic" languages such as Python, Ruby etc.
