Have been using Go since its release, and like the deployment experience, the feeling of solidity of putting together a tight system. The toolchain is great. 1.

Have been using Go since its release, and like the deployment experience, the feeling of solidity of putting together a tight system. The toolchain is great. 1.6 is yet another Solid release in that direction. Thank you all. However, the _language_ doesn't give me much programming pleasure alas. Since there is plenty of time for Christmas, here's my syntax wish list :) '?': C's if-then-else operator. Block-syntax for closures ala Ruby. Unifying blocks and closures makes creating DSLs easy, but doesn't add to cognitive load (no more than using anon funcs) Pattern matching like Scala, ML, Rust. Sum types -- (Yeah, I lied. Not just syntax enhancements), or at least discriminated unions. I'd like to see an example (in the FAQ entry on the topic) on why support for it is troublesome. For 2017 Christmas, ------------------- Macros ala Nim. Systemic support for Goroutines, including detection of conditions where a goroutine would never get scheduled. Erlang-like tools for built-in goroutine insight. ------ My ideal language would be an intersection of Nim+Go