Personally, I find writing tests in Go to be extremely painful outside of trivial assertion tests. The minute you need to start introducing test doubles, spies,

Personally, I find writing tests in Go to be extremely painful outside of trivial assertion tests. The minute you need to start introducing test doubles, spies, or mocks, you're abusing interface{}. Compared to Ruby's rspec or even Python's pytest where creating these objects is fairly straightforward, writing new code with Golang often feels like a chore. I get that a lot of this difficulty stems from Go being a compiled language, but I still wish that writing tests were easier. (I'm really thankful that Ginkgo and Gomega exist though!)