The lack of "generics" (parametric polymorphism) in Go has certainly made the incidental complexity in Kubenetes much higher: https://medium.com/@arschles/go-ex

The lack of "generics" (parametric polymorphism) in Go has certainly made the incidental complexity in Kubenetes much higher: https://medium.com/@arschles/go-experience-report-generics-in-kubernetes-25da87430301 https://medium.com/@arschles/go-experience-report-generics-i... Go and Haskell are really at different ends of a spectrum. Haskell is a very high level language, which makes building and reasoning about very complex software much easier (at the expense of a learning curve and fine control of space usage). Go is a low-level language with no learning curve and a very limited facility to abstract (by design it seems). Personally I would have written something like Kubenetes in Haskell or OCaml, with perhaps the odd performance critical section in C or Rust.