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> Go is quite popular

Well sure, but inheritance and enterprise-style Java were all the rage in the 90s, but they largely haven't stood the test of time. I rather suspect Go will be similar. It has some good ideas, and it's compiler toolchain is top-quality. But I'd be willing to bet that the languages we're using in 20 years time look a lot more like Rust/Swift/Kotlin and TypeScript/Julia than Go.



Go will eventually grew up to be like Java and Cä# in 2020.

Java was released in 1996, and only got enterprise-style C++ adoption around 2000.

Until then, the inheritance and enterprise-style programming was done in a mix of Smalltalk, Eiffel, C++ and C based OOP.

Julia is basically Dylan/Common Lisp at its kernel, Java and C# are getting all the ML like goodies to stay relevant, see C# vs F#.




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