Go just strikes me as profoundly boring. "Uh, we do lots of C. Yeah, and lots of Python. Dude. Let's make a language that's like, uh ... C and Python! Yes!

Go just strikes me as profoundly boring. "Uh, we do lots of C. Yeah, and lots of Python. Dude. Let's make a language that's like, uh ... C and Python! Yes! Awesome." In a world where the only thing harder than Haskell is Google's interview questions, you'd think they would've come up with something more original.