I really wanted to learn something from this post, but it's mostly just hyperbole and whining. "It turns out that, in Go, you can't write a self-recursive anon

I really wanted to learn something from this post, but it's mostly just hyperbole and whining. "It turns out that, in Go, you can't write a self-recursive anonymous function - there's no way to make it refer to itself. Well, you can do a dirty hack that's the "official work-around" (I'll let you google for the bug report)." To summarize this argument: 1. It is impossible to have a self-recursive anonymous function in Go. 2. Oh wait.. It is completely possible, but far too ugly to soil this blog post. I looked up the temporary solution (http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=226 http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=226). It is this: var recurse func() recurse = func() { recurse() } The proposed permanent solution is allowing recursive function definitions, because that is the proper solution instead of adding a magic self keyword like other languages do. (tl;dr The author just doesn't like the fairly-simple work-around proposed while the language is still developing) Edit: There definitely are far more important things in Go I dislike, and would change, however this blog post is essentially fluff.