[jungler]

I think it's philosophically interesting. The Go approach to needing a more powerful language is to assume that you actually want to write a custom code generator for your project's needs. And it's not pretty to do so(the "go generate" thing makes quite a wart in its attempt to ease this process), but it works, and you can move on with your project. Most newer languages get tied in knots trying to generalize that same task and have a kind of configurability meltdown where everyone does it differently, so while it can be shared and reused in theory, none of it is actually compatible. I think it's akin to criticism of OOP in that in a lot of cases, "you wanted a banana but you got a banana plantation, three tractors, and twenty employees".

And Go is just a little bit closer to the sweet spot than C was, since a greater proportion of Go code seems to successfully avoid extensive preprocessing.

On the other hand, it might be a bit too restrictive for prototyping to have these power limits. I definitely have an easier time feeling my way through an unknown data modelling problem if I can start slinging things together dynamically.