I like Go but a couple of these "advantages" wash out when you add the scale and typical usage patterns of agents.

| Go is Readable / Go is Maintainable

It's true that Go, as a low-magic language, tends to be very same-y looking across projects, which is incredible for being able to reliably understand your dependencies' source code. And its tooling is world-class. I love this about Go.

But in practice I've found that, working in a monorepo with multiple teams, contributors that don't have cross-team legibility as a priority will just write SO much more code. And with business logic, often the fact that I can read the code on a line-by-line level doesn't matter if I don't understand the wider context to know how something might effect spooky action at a distance.

Pre-agents, I witnessed a fast transition from a codebase that I could mostly hold in my head to one where large swathes of it had been written and rewritten until they were unrecognizable to me. Now we have agents and, since they are still mostly not good at software engineering in-the-large, the process of knowledge debt accumulation (and ofc tech debt accumulation) in a codebase accelerates tenfold without concerted effort in the other direction. Go being easy to read does not intrinsically help with that.