I also disagree on the code formatting front – once you get used to it, gofmt really is the best thing ever. However, all the rest of the points are pretty val

I also disagree on the code formatting front – once you get used to it, gofmt really is the best thing ever. However, all the rest of the points are pretty valid. Go has the potential to be an awesome language and environment, and minimalism as a language attribute is attractive. But it's so frigging annoying to use in practice.