My read on Go versus other options, having used it for a year or so and then switching back to other old favorites(Python, Haxe, Lua), is that it really doesn't

My read on Go versus other options, having used it for a year or so and then switching back to other old favorites(Python, Haxe, Lua), is that it really doesn't want you to redefine the language. Go code is Go everywhere and asks you to work with a largely homogenous set of concerns everywhere. That is great if you are building the environment for your application, but it's not great if you are building the application, because a differentiated app will always possess a unique application "vocabulary" - it's a thing that gets thought about in terms of a medium that is not the host language. Go resists extension, so most teams opt for primitivism rather than developing proprietary compilation mechanisms to express their spec. Everyone gets worried about the risks of generating code and how to maintain that: it's a "known" to have a larger fungible uniform codebase. The result is that "slow and steady" feeling when working with Go to do relatively high-level things - it lets you do it, but you have to work hard.