I'm in the same boat as ozataman, go feels like a huge step backwards to me because I use haskell. My interest in programming languages is roughly 0% academic

I'm in the same boat as ozataman, go feels like a huge step backwards to me because I use haskell. My interest in programming languages is roughly 0% academic in nature. I use haskell primarily for web development (also random stuff like parsing log files, automating deployments, etc). I use it for these things because the practical benefits of such a high level language are so good, using anything else is painful.