My opinion is that Go has the same problems as UNIX: - Reactionary in the face of Multics' (resp. Java/C#) complexity, but overshooting to the point of "worse

My opinion is that Go has the same problems as UNIX: - Reactionary in the face of Multics' (resp. Java/C#) complexity, but overshooting to the point of "worse is better". - Basically confusing "no complexity" with punting of said complexity to users who will solve it in multiple horrible and/or incompatible ways; like a badly designed R5RS Scheme. - Some decent ideas but poorly and non-uniformly implemented compared to Plan 9 (whatever will fix Go). Which is quite logical, knowing who made both of these... I don't know enough about Java to comment on that switch (as modern Java seems to have gotten a lot of cool stuff like pattern matching and https://openjdk.org/jeps/485 https://openjdk.org/jeps/485) BUT Java's runtime (which also powers Clojure and Scala) is evolving at an impressive rate compared to Go's: especially GraalVM and generational ZGC.