A Java developer shares first impressions of Go after three months of use, covering both positives (simplicity, batteries-included stdlib, tooling) and frustrations (no Set type, verbose error handling, funky date formatting, lack of generics/streams). The post concludes with a realization that Go was designed for simplicity and specific use cases like CLI tools and high-performance servers, not general web app development, and that comparing it directly to Java+Spring is an apples-to-oranges comparison.
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