[oelang]

> Go is a language that is a bit tedious to write, no doubt about that, but it's very easy to read. I spend a lot of my time reading other people's code and I really appreciate that.

Figuring out 1000 lines of code that could have been 10 and verbosity caused by a lack of generics is not going to help you understand code quicker. Figuring out what 10 lines of Scala do may take more time compared to 10 lines of go, but that's not a measure of velocity, the information density of go is just too low. At least 10 lines of scala fit on my screen, 1000 lines of go don't.

Code style issues imho are a team issue, if you do reviews these issues can be managed.

> not all of us are unaware of the amazing "progress"

Look at Rust, at least they did their homework. With Rust out there I can't see any reason to use Go except maybe their crappy GC.

[PopsiclePete]

I like Rust too. I re-wrote a parser I had implemented in Go in Rust and got almost an 8x speed-up. Having said that, the two almost have no overlap for me. I don't see how Rust replaces Go in 9/10 of Go use-cases. And vice-versa.