It's a tradeoff. You get a simple language without a lot of surprising features, but sometimes code is very verbose; sometimes problems that would be trivial in

It's a tradeoff. You get a simple language without a lot of surprising features, but sometimes code is very verbose; sometimes problems that would be trivial in other languages require unfortunate solutions like cgo, reflection, strange hacks[0], or code generation; and sometimes the "sensible" opinionated ecosystem doesn't fit how you want to work. [0] https://golang.org/pkg/sort/#example_ https://golang.org/pkg/sort/#example_