[thespoonbends]

After disliking it for 6-7 years, because it doesn't offer the amount of abstraction that others languages offer (Scala, Haskell, Java), Go has grown on me.

I got too caught up in designing elaborate abstractions in those languages. I couldn't avoid it either, since other libraries would also use elaborate abstractions.

With Go, I just write plain dull code, against a suite of good dull libraries. Ultimately I spend less time writing programs (typically internet services) in Go than other languages.

[_y5hn]

Without too many distracting abstractions I find it easier to evolve a codebase over time rather than overengineering at start.