Yes, didn't mean to imply you lose all static type safety -- you're still way better off on that front than in a language like Python or JavaScript. Basically,

Yes, didn't mean to imply you lose all static type safety -- you're still way better off on that front than in a language like Python or JavaScript. Basically, if you're happy with a dynamic language, Go makes things better most of the time, but sometimes you have fall back to dynamic checking, because of the lack of generics. Custom containers: Well, it's definitely true that you can get pretty far with just arrays and hash tables -- which Go special-cases! -- but you're probably gunna want something fancier eventually...