> I hate languages that deliberately take features away from the developer: This is why - although I respect the philosophy - I would never choose to use Go, fo

> I hate languages that deliberately take features away from the developer: This is why - although I respect the philosophy - I would never choose to use Go, for example. The don't really take the features away, they move the problem to a proper templating/code generation language. These are language neutral so you don't have to learn a different one for each language, they are often more powerful too. IME the code they generate is a lot easier to deal with than templated code.