Here's how my assessment selected Go (long before LLMs):

- I had to write a moderately complex program. I didn't want to do it in C, and I didn't want to learn Rust.

- So I spent roughly about 2 hours becoming familiar with Go and playing around in Go playground. I decided that this would work.

- And then I got started on my program and I was immediately productive and that software is still running today, along with all the other stuff I've written since then.

Programmer productivity is excellent with Go. And it has a thriving ecosystem. Of course, some things could be better, but I don't really have much issue with it's error handling or types.