I have similar gripes with Go. I really love programming with CSP techniques and Go does a good job of implementing a lot of this at a lower-level. Clojure also

I have similar gripes with Go. I really love programming with CSP techniques and Go does a good job of implementing a lot of this at a lower-level. Clojure also draws from CSP and from Go's implementation of CSP, but lacks some of the nice things Go has going on here at lower-levels, however I end preferring Clojure for so many other reasons. I still would not shy away from Go, but it's far from a perfect language and doesn't really improve on a lot of things that similar languages don't do well. I think it's not just Google, but the cult of Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, etc. I appreciate their work on so many things, so I don't mean any ill-will. I was a user of ACME editor and Plan9, but just like those projects, Go has so many polish issues in critical areas. The package management alone is ridiculous. The common theme in all these projects is for every good idea, there is an order of magnitude more critical mistakes or divisive ideas that cripple the end result in some way. Go is alright, but it's not really that interesting to me or a monumental leap. There are a few ideas that others could cherry-pick and put into much better designed languages to take it all a step further in my opinion.