The Go team surveyed 11,840 developers for its 2021 Go Developer Survey and found 54% were "very satisfied" with the state of the language while 38% said they were "somewhat satisfied".

Go 1.18, which Google touts as "the culmination of over a decade of design", delivers a number of significant updates to the programming language that have long been requested by developers.

The language Go hails from an era when programmers had smaller egos and fewer commercial ambitions. My generation of strivers has a lot to learn.