Totally agree. When I first encountered Go, I kinda hated it for its lugubrious combination of being rather "braindead" and opinionated about being braindead at

Totally agree. When I first encountered Go, I kinda hated it for its lugubrious combination of being rather "braindead" and opinionated about being braindead at the same time. Typing it every day gave me flashbacks of programming Java circa JDK 1.4 (before the compiler-only based generics were introduced in 1.5, which I still believe didn't solve enough problems for the complexity it added). In short, it felt like a step backward. But after seeing its gc performance sitting at the single-digit ms timeframes with huge heaps (60 gigabytes!) I realized I needed to hold my nose. What helped me make peace with it is its automated testing story. It's baked into the language in a way I've rarely seen in any other runtime.