> While many of these points (on generics especially) are completely legitimate, this article will fall on deaf ears. My impression of the Go community (both wi

> While many of these points (on generics especially) are completely legitimate, this article will fall on deaf ears. My impression of the Go community (both within Google and outside of it) is that there is a very ... moralistic? .... sense of "You don't really need that, we know best" going on. And this encapsulates perfectly why I don't like Go. Writing Go feels like putting a straightjacket on myself. It seriously feels uncomfortable, which says a lot considering I come from a Python background, and I'm used to a language that tries to enforce a particular philosophy. In a lot of ways, Python's "there should be one and only one obvious way to do it" feels like working with pre-established harmony, while Go just tries to force its own arbitrary discipline on me. If I'm going to use an AOT language, I'd honestly rather have the flexibility offered by D or Nim. And if I don't have to use an AOT language for something -- and Go is mostly being marketed as an alternative to non-AOT languages like Python and Java despite being AOT itself -- then I'd add Python and Perl 6 as languages I'd rather work with than Go.