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Are you sure you're not confusing Go with some other language?

> daunting!

Go is often praised for being simple.

> modern!

...and criticized for being too simple, ignoring modern advances in programming language research.

> no compiler OMG!

The compiler and its careful tradeoff between fast compilation and fast programs is a key characteristic of Go.

> text transformation on the code itself!

Go doesn't have macros. Instead people fall back on code generation, just like Java.