There's a lot of GC'ed languages out there to choose from. A language that makes it optional is not only more powerful, but can be used in places where GC is no

There's a lot of GC'ed languages out there to choose from. A language that makes it optional is not only more powerful, but can be used in places where GC is not an option. IMHO, for GC'ed languages, Go is just more of the same. I can think of a bunch of languages that offer much more already.