I don't think any reasonable member of the Go community would claim that any aspect of the language and its standard library is perfect. The many open issues on

I don't think any reasonable member of the Go community would claim that any aspect of the language and its standard library is perfect. The many open issues on https://github.com/golang/go https://github.com/golang/go attest to that. One example, if I may: the errors.As function is far from ergonomic. It would have been much better if generics had come to the language before that function was added to the standard library. Modern alternatives exist: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/jub0bs/errutil https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/jub0bs/errutil