>I'm primarily a Java and Go coder and think that writing boring code to solve difficult problems requires much more intelligence and artistry than writing comp

>I'm primarily a Java and Go coder and think that writing boring code to solve difficult problems requires much more intelligence and artistry than writing complicated code. That is a false dichotomy, and a particularly dishonest one at that. The options are not write complicated code in a modern language vs write boring code in an obsolete language. Go is bad because it gives the programmer poor tools to write any kind of code to solve difficult problems, boring or otherwise. Basic simple functionality that has been established for decades is being ignored because people insist on pretending that having a good language is somehow a problem and makes code complicated.