Go is still not good

Go has its fair share of flaws but I still think it hits a sweet spot that no other server side language provides.

It’s faster than Node or Python, with a better type system than either. It’s got a much easier learning curve than Rust. It has a good stdlib and tooling. Simple syntax with usually only one way to do things. Error handling has its problems but I still prefer it over Node, where a catch clause might receive just about anything as an “error”.

Am I missing a language that does this too or more? I’m not a Go fanatic at all, mostly written Node for backends in my career, but I’ve been exploring Go lately.

>with a better type system than either

Given Python's substantial improvements recently, I would put it far ahead of the structural typing done in Go, personally.

Yes, Python is massively ahead there. The largest wart is that types can be out of sync with actual implementation, with things blowing up at runtime -- but so can Go with `any` and reflection.

Python, for a number of years at this point, has had structural (!) pattern matching with unpacking, type-checking baked in, with exhaustiveness checking (depending on the type checker you use). And all that works at "type-check time".

It can also facilitate type-state programming through class methods.

Libraries like Pydantic are fantastic in their combination of ergonomics and type safety.

The prime missing piece is sum types, which need language-level support to work well.

Go is simplistic in comparison.