Yes, good point. I worked in a lot in PHP though and interesting that a lot of the changes it has went through the last 15 years seem to have been "inspired" by

Yes, good point. I worked in a lot in PHP though and interesting that a lot of the changes it has went through the last 15 years seem to have been "inspired" by Java. A lot of frameworks (Laravel, Symfony, Zend) seem to lean heavily on OOP style, and it's easy (or it was for me anyway) to fall in to the trap of everything must be a class and if not you are doing it wrong, even if the language does not require OOP. Design Patterns, Refactoring, Clean Code, it feels like a lot of my "industry journey" if you like was built on an assumption that everything started with OOP. Go, for me, was the first language I've used in a while that truly detached itself from all that dogma, not just in it's features but it's overall principles and ethos.