There have been and will be improvements. Go 1.8 improves timeouts. They are constrained to some extent by the Go 1 compatibility promise, for example they don

There have been and will be improvements. Go 1.8 improves timeouts. They are constrained to some extent by the Go 1 compatibility promise, for example they don't want to change default behaviour on timeouts probably because of that. Hopefully if they have a Go 2 at some point they'll use that opportunity to clean up some APIs and fix a few things like this.