This is posted in the context of the discussion ongoing at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332830 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332830, elsewher

This is posted in the context of the discussion ongoing at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332830 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332830, elsewhere on the front page as I write this. Note if you are a title-only-before-commenting reader that this is not a generalized apologia for Go, but specifically for the case of porting the Typescript compiler, so reciting the Litany Against Go in a general sense is not really on topic. (The Litany, naturally, is: I must not Go. Go is the mind-killer. Go is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face Go. I will permit it to pass over me and Go through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the Go has Go'ed there will be nothing. Only I will remain. )