[sbochins]

I don’t get the no boilerplate aspect of your comment. For all that Golang has going for it, avoiding boilerplate isn’t one of them. I’m thinking specifically about multiple clauses at the beginning of functions passing up return values and copy pasting the same code (or auto generating it) to work around lack of generics.

Most of the criticism about Java seem to be about old codebases that overused Gang of Four patterns, when that used to be more of a thing. Don’t blame the hammer for the shoddy building, blame the hammerer.