It's not that it has been glossed over, or was a mistake. It's a tradeoff in favor of simplicity (and compiler / tooling speed). It is difficult to view Go as

It's not that it has been glossed over, or was a mistake. It's a tradeoff in favor of simplicity (and compiler / tooling speed). It is difficult to view Go as a serious language because it fails to acknowledge these decisions, repeatedly. You can't really trust the language in that sense.