> which makes a lot of problems impossible to model accurately Impossible? > (instead, you have to fall back to reflection, which is extremely unsafe, and th

> which makes a lot of problems impossible to model accurately Impossible? > (instead, you have to fall back to reflection, which is extremely unsafe, and the API is very error-prone), Extremely unsafe? > when you make something simple, you move complexity elsewhere. Does it? Or did you, in reality, not really make it simpler? > Go says “don't worry about encodings! things are probably utf-8” Does it? https://blog.golang.org/strings https://blog.golang.org/strings It just sounds like the author is very frustrated at some seemingly minor inconsistencies (from their perspective), and the extreme language used for things that are not that extreme are evidence in my opinion. Blogging can be a good exercise to shed some frustration, I definitely understand that aspect. Not sure this needs to be shared as a good example of anything or taken in any light, other than "someone is venting."