One year after switching from Java to Go

I work with a brownfield go monorepo with a couple different styles and lesser known “frameworks” in it. It sucks to work in, one of the previous devs was a huge fan of clean code, so every function with more than a couple inputs has its own struct, pointers are used everywhere just by default (and basically never nil checked) and the AI generated tests are so plentiful that changing a small thing quickly explodes into thousands of lines in of changes.

Because it’s go and not really following a framework or pattern, the LLMs just can’t get the style right, so everything is brute force. Know what is easy to build with an LLM? A spring boot app. You can work on the hard logic while your little automated friend works on all the boiler plate and wiring.

Disasters can be created in any language, right? Has little to do with Go.

True, but most of the arguments against java in this thread are similarly about bad dev practices and not the language itself.

Exactly.