I've been coding Go professionally now for about 8 months. Interestingly, it has made me appreciate C++. The reason is while the Go compiler is fast, it is most

I've been coding Go professionally now for about 8 months. Interestingly, it has made me appreciate C++. The reason is while the Go compiler is fast, it is mostly because it doesn't do very much work. By contrast, a C++ program takes a long time to compile because the compiler does a lot. It's obviously not as black/white as I've portrayed it here for brevity, but it is nevertheless an apparent trade off. I like Go overall, but on balance I would prefer a slower compile-test cycle to have more language feature support.