alt Hacker NewsThe languages are very different. C# has much more powerful abstractions and is a much larger language in general. That is both an advantage and a disadvantage. Modern C# is also very fast, I wouldn't bet on Go winning that comparison.
My experience with Go is a while back, before it got generics. While I liked the overall idea of a language with little syntax and a focus on simplicity, I didn't really like Go in the end. It was a weird mix of too low-level and high level code. It exposed low level details that I don't need to think about in C#, and it is missing convenient abstractions like LINQ.
Personally, I like async/await in C# more than Go concurrency. I know this is heretical here, but I don't care about function coloring or any of the abstract advantages of other concurrency approaches. Async/Await in C# works for me (in non-legacy code) and is easy to understand.
the main problem with the .net async/await is the immediate execution of a call returning a Task, without control over where it may execute. F#'s asnyc was way saner and easier to understand in my opinion.
I'd beg to differ on the easy to understand... last time i worked with this stuff like ConfigureAwait only has cargo cults and no real good explanation, and wasn't covered in any recent version of eg. CLR via C#... Distributed tracing and thread management were totally bitten by async, also the way iterators and LINQ were broken... that was when I got off the train, as it broke the best abstractions for line of business code so that instead of designing an IO pipeline lazy developers could simple put Task.Run around blocking IO calls at the bottom of the codebas, and ... yeah, we are back at function coloring.
This brings me to: I winder for what kind of apps did you find it a delight, because for extensive data wrangling leveraging multiple calls it was a pain.