Agreed. I would love for Go to have stolen more pages from Rust's crusade for zero-cost abstractions and high level conveniences. I can appreciate ruthless cons

Agreed. I would love for Go to have stolen more pages from Rust's crusade for zero-cost abstractions and high level conveniences. I can appreciate ruthless conservatism in some places, but Go isn't actually ruthlessly conservative. It has quite a lot of weird things in its stdlib.