Previously in my life as an IC, I wrote a lot of Golang. I worked on the larger end to end encrypted video calling service.

I hated it. I was dreaming of Rust the entire time to release me from the hell of if err != nil dozens of time per day.

After hours with LLMs I've changed my tune. There have been 5 clients of mine (who have excellent engineering teams) but cannot get coherent results out of LLMs using python or Typescript.

I arrived back at Golang being a frustratingly simple, consistent, and low-thrash programming language which inadvertently made itself well represented in the training corpus [1].

My concession is that if you are going to write a median program (reading/writing files, network, db, etc.)...

Pick Golang especially if you've never used it. LLMs are extremely good at it, frustratingly so.

[1] https://jry.io/writing/use-boring-languages-with-llms/