Golang. My next choice.

For sometime I wanted to learn a programming language other than Java and SQL. These are the programming languages that I have extensively worked with. 

Java is one of the language you first learn in you academic courses. It is easy to teach and learn. And It's tools are available for free. It follows a very popular paradigm which the academics love. 

But I felt Java very verbose. It takes a lot code to implement the same functionality in Java compared to other programming languages. It is also slow to execute and consumes a lot of system resource. 

And SQL is a programming language that can be used to write only database queries.

Among the thousands of programming language choices the Rust programming language was the hot topic. From the praises I read; this was an amazing programming language. It was my default pick.

So I tried to learn Rust. But I found the syntax weird. The macro system was powerful but you have to explicitly indicate that you are calling a macro with ! symbol. As a programmer you should not only know which function to call but also be aware if it is macro or not. 

When I was looking into Haskell I loved functional programming style of writing code. But the Rust adaption of this is very inconvenient to use. Somehow the simplicity of functional programming style in Haskell is lost in Rust.

Then I tried golang. 

I was avoiding this programming language because of its garbage collection feature. But when I started looking into it I found it very easy to learn and simple. The simplicity allows you to write very terse code. 

One killer feature is the multi-threading support. The go threads are very light weight and you can spawn thousands of them very easily. Various inter process communication features are also very helpful. The multi-threading syntax is baked into the golang compiler. It is very easy to write multi-threading applications in golang.

The ability of golang to generate standalone executable is the most underrated feature in my opinion.

And as for the garbage collection its very fast. From the history various releases we can see that the garbage collection is continuously worked on and had been made fast.