There are many good things in go, but some very weird stuff too. Good things are multiple return values, lack of semicolon, optional braces for if and for, ins

There are many good things in go, but some very weird stuff too. Good things are multiple return values, lack of semicolon, optional braces for if and for, insanely fast compile time. Bad things are forced curly brace style, complicated function declaration syntax, variable declaration which is too different from C in my opinion (type after the variable name). I'd honestly prefer a language which is even closer to C or C++ in its syntax, with native maps, sets, queues, tuples, etc (pythonic stuff) without necessarily having templates or inheritance. I put a lot of value in syntactic sugar over overblown abstract stuff. Using plain struct with data oriented programming will be more than enough in most of the cases. We are still waiting for C++ modules, which obviously might be lagging because C++ has an ISO standard and a lot of existing code which involves backward compatibility, but I think we need a new language that could be faster to compile, just like go is.