But it doesn't simplify, it just moves the complexity around. That's not necessarily bad, you get better safety guarantees as a result but you also spend more

But it doesn't simplify, it just moves the complexity around. That's not necessarily bad, you get better safety guarantees as a result but you also spend more time fighting the compiler and locked in design space trying to get a model that works (and even MORE time is spent if you want it to be readable and something that other people can grok quickly). I don't see this as an either/or situation. There's a continuum between do whatever the hell you want C and rigorously defined Idris code. Picking a spot on that line involves many trade-offs and everybody has to choose what's right for their situation. That means Go approach is sometimes superior to the Scala approach for a certain class of problems in certain domains. Edit: don't downvote me, tell me how I'm wrong.