I did the back-and-forth for several years with Go. What drew me in was promises and wishes, what made me leave every time was realizing I had fallen for the sa

I did the back-and-forth for several years with Go. What drew me in was promises and wishes, what made me leave every time was realizing I had fallen for the same stupid trick again. It only looks simple because of the features they skipped and the arbitrary limitations they decided on. Once a codebase reaches a certain level of complexity and the need for more powerful abstractions arises, the perceived simplicity is no more.