Most of that could apply to Kotlin also (familiar from Java, etc). Go's relative lack of features seems more to do with their idiosyncratic programming philoso

Most of that could apply to Kotlin also (familiar from Java, etc). Go's relative lack of features seems more to do with their idiosyncratic programming philosophy [1]. The tone is a bit condescending, but they clearly consider it good enough for themselves and it's usually become their primary tool of choice when Go team members work on new projects. Personally I can see some appeal of fewer features. When trying to solve some medium-sized problem in Go, I often end up working through in my head 5-10 ways to structure it with Go's existing features (and almost always one of them ends up being satisfactory). If I had a lot more features, I could work through 20+ ways, but what good would that do? Of course, I'm looking forward to user-defined generics (although their absence hasn't been critical for me). I used them in C#, but I would run into limitations [2]. Although it's taken a long time to arrive, I'd prefer to work with the system that the Go team has designed (and now accepted). To me this doesn't make them look bad? People complain about nullability etc, but I just don't spend a lot of time on those bugs... Let's say I just don't understand other languages. What language should I use then? I need memory control (value types), reasonable perf, if GC < 2ms pauses, also cross platform. That seems to mostly leave Rust and C++... are the extra features really worth giving up GC over? That isn't a rhetorical question by the way, that's how I ended up with Go. If your position was "most projects should use Kotlin and not Go" I think that's defensible. But you constantly saying Go programmers just can't understand other languages (despite plenty of contrary evidence) gets tiresome. [1] https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti... [2] abstracting over float and double, blittable types, etc