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Go does have plenty of abstractions. I think the more charitable interpretation is "Go generally discourages metaprogramming." Which I would agree with, and I

• eru 1y ago
  Go mostly only have abstractions that the language designers put into the language. It is (mostly) hostile to users defining their own new abstractions. A case in point is that arrays and maps (and the 'make' function etc) were always generic, but as a user until fairly recently you couldn't define your own generic data structures and algorithms.