On one hand, the bar for things to be called bad has now dropped pretty low. Being not as excellent as other thing, or not being excellent throughout is enough.

On one hand, the bar for things to be called bad has now dropped pretty low. Being not as excellent as other thing, or not being excellent throughout is enough. But I think the actual hate isn't coming from Go technical shortcomings. It's language authors and community attitude towards people asking for obvious QoL improvements. Generics are a bad enough example of community for years tactfully flipping off everyone asking for them and then, hey, here they are and the sky doesn't seem to be falling. But it's not the only example. Just a couple days ago I was researching if there's a way to somehow build struct tags from constants or use interpolation and sure enough, there's an old bug tracker suggestion entry that got a two sentence "won't do" reply with zero reasoning and a bunch of following entries just marked as duplicate and closed without reply at all. This happens a lot. And people don't appreciate it.