I'm happy to entertain the idea that Go is a sweet spot for many, but please let's not pretend language features are universally bad. After all, Go benefits eno

I'm happy to entertain the idea that Go is a sweet spot for many, but please let's not pretend language features are universally bad. After all, Go benefits enormously from a garbage collector and its language-level support for Hoare's CSP. Two very important features that e.g C and C++ do not have (they do however have structs, for loops and if statements). IMHO Go certainly chose wisely when it left out many OOP features of questionable value. And perhaps in doing so, it avoided the whole OOP culture, which has produced a lot of over-complicated software and tools. The culture of simplicity in Go is a really good thing and worth defending. However, we should be open to the idea that one or more additional language features might help to further this goal.