your general impression is correct, fwiw. however, that doesn't necessarily mean that go is "a bad language". it's more a cultural thing, as far as i can see.

your general impression is correct, fwiw. however, that doesn't necessarily mean that go is "a bad language". it's more a cultural thing, as far as i can see. go has some nice ideas and is a big advance over, say c or c++. it's also made by people with a lot of experience and, for want of a better phrase "good taste". but it does have a certain culture (or, if you like, a disregard for a certain culture). nothing very useful seems to have come from these observations, and many people have made them. it's probably better to simply consider the language as a tool and work with it on its own terms. perhaps the most you can say is that, because it does choose its own path, you really do need to use it in the way intended by the authors.