I'm glad this post (and others) are sounding the alarm. Go's greatness could very easily be destroyed by a small number of missteps like this one. I'm wishing

I'm glad this post (and others) are sounding the alarm. Go's greatness could very easily be destroyed by a small number of missteps like this one. I'm wishing for the absolute rule of the curmudgeony quadrumvirate like the one that designed Go. This feature-bike-shedding hungry mob is proof of the problem with democracies. And when it comes to programming languages (unlike societies) the the trade-offs for a democracy are not worth the price. Go should (almost) completely ignore the crowd on design issues. It should have changes made that a small cabal of experts unanimously agree with.