It's frustrating because Go comes very close to being something I'd want to use, but falls short in all areas. With designing APIs, that reaction is used as a

It's frustrating because Go comes very close to being something I'd want to use, but falls short in all areas. With designing APIs, that reaction is used as a proxy for "doing it right." You have to name things starting with a capital letter to make them public. Who came up with this convention? It is not shared by any language ever. Some Smalltalks used this convention with Globals.