My opinions about Go. i) go build XXX that creates an exe, one can put on a usb stick and run (distribute) it, is a feature hard to beat.
I do not know, if it will be rendered correctly. D:\jm\jmgo>hello3.exe ASCII abcde xyz German äöü ÄÖÜ ß Polish ąęźżńł Russian абвгдеж эюя CJK 你好 French œÿéà Misc ሴé€㑖Ѓ⌴* D:\jm\jmgo> ii) From a unicode perspective, excellent, coherent and very well constructed, but... iii) Having to work with an utf-8 arithmetic (strings <-> runes conversion), no thanks. jmf -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list