"However given the amount of boilerplate you describe, I cannot understand how such useful and reliable tools can be delivered in Go." I don't follow your logi

"However given the amount of boilerplate you describe, I cannot understand how such useful and reliable tools can be delivered in Go." I don't follow your logic. Multitudes of useful and reliable tools were built with assembly languages - is that evidence that assembly code doesn't have a lot of boilerplate (relative to modern languages)?