I don't get the sense that they think it has no place in an imperative language. Like the OP calls out, Go is a very small language with few constructs. For a l

I don't get the sense that they think it has no place in an imperative language. Like the OP calls out, Go is a very small language with few constructs. For a lot of tasks there are simply only one way to do things. Some would consider this a strength, others a weakness (kind of like Python vs. Perl).