Im going to go out a limb here and say: if you’re going to respond to this with “lol Java” or “but you’ll like go if you try it for long enough”, you’re doing y

Im going to go out a limb here and say: if you’re going to respond to this with “lol Java” or “but you’ll like go if you try it for long enough”, you’re doing yourself and your community a disservice. Responding to detailed critique with trite offhand dismissal just comes off as a massive Kool Aid Drinker. Don’t be that guy! Anyway, here my take! Go! It is beyond frustrating that the core team has walked back on a number of stubborn decision that they were wrong about and that they appear to have made in a stubborn opinionated way based on good intentions and a deep failure to listen to people who really do know what they’re talking about. …until it becomes overwhelming apparent that they were wrong; buuut, I still use it, and I don’t dislike it that much and maybe taking a long time to get to a good position isn’t a bad thing? It is frustrating; but what do you want? There’s a good package system now. Some of the missing tools are there now. Generics. That’s good right? Why is that a bad thing? Frustrating? Ok. But bad? Bad enough to not use go? How is having good things now a reason not to use them? Also, when you look at other kitchen-sync languages that are eager to embrace new things, there’s a bloated complexity that comes with it. That’s also frustrating and draining. You can’t have everything. A lot of people use go and it’s fine. If you’re building a big complicated ERP system, maybe Java is a better choice for you. It’s a good choice for some people. Java is also a great programming language and it has a massive, excellent third party ecosystem. … If go makes you sad, don’t use it. Some of the critique is probably fair, but it’s still a great language with an excellent set of tools around it (not debugging, or c ffi, but static binaries and cross compiling :) The critique of the “go way” and the go core team is probably unfair; it can feel frustrating. I get frustrated. …but you get a pile of shiny crap when you design by committee. These people are doing a lot of work and it’s going… pretty ok, I think? Strong, opinionated maintainers are a good thing.