[jmquigs]

There are some things I like about Go:

1) really fast compilation speed

2) goroutines

3) gofmt

But I learned F# after learning Go, and it felt like I was walking out of Plato's cave. Its hard to use a Go-like language after using the ML-style features described in this post.

Most modern static languages shift the debugging from run-time to compile-time, which is a huge win in my opinion, but Go does not do this. You don't even need to go "pure functional" to get the benefits (as in Haskell), Rust/F#/OCaml are fine.