I would agree that additional tools like static analyzers and linters add extra work in the beginning, sometimes significant extra work. But once they're up and

I would agree that additional tools like static analyzers and linters add extra work in the beginning, sometimes significant extra work. But once they're up and running, they greatly decrease the amount of work I have to do, in my experience. I do like Go's sane defaults and awesome standard library, although I find it wanting as a language (Rust, which ships w/Cargo, also has sane defaults and is more what I look for in a programming language).