Scripting manipulation of the AST is something that tooling can make much nicer. That might not exist (yet) for Go, but I think there is a lot of value in makin

Scripting manipulation of the AST is something that tooling can make much nicer. That might not exist (yet) for Go, but I think there is a lot of value in making the language easy to understand for tooling. Compare for example the quality of IDEs for Java vs C++. But this is of course orthogonal to generics, as you can make generics friendly to tooling as well, see Java.