Big time agreement here as well. I'm biased because I've built a career on Go at this point but the pragmatism and ability to just get things done in Go withou

Big time agreement here as well. I'm biased because I've built a career on Go at this point but the pragmatism and ability to just get things done in Go without faffing about with unnecessary abstractions is I think one of the strongest practical demonstrations of how incredible an imperative language can be, and for me personally at least, no FP language will ever beat the productivity that I can achieve with Go, especially because at least in my problem domain the real world problems always have enough corner cases that FP wouldn't even be useful. In Go I just systematically eliminate and handle each possible step and state, in a straightforward way, directly deal with the business logic, and then it's done and it works predictably and efficiently for years. Interfaces really are a sufficient form of polymorphism, too.