The recent trend in languages like Go is not bad. The intention is to make you productive. It's a new direction that programming languages should explore more.

The recent trend in languages like Go is not bad. The intention is to make you productive. It's a new direction that programming languages should explore more. Instead of CS theory emphasize psychological theory, since it's still humans that program. And note the human reaction to yet another language like Dart. Many of the programming languages they've tried promised the moon, but turned out didn't have huge effects on general productivity. Libs, frameworks, idioms, testing approaches etc, have a bigger impact.