[sweeneyrod]

"But the argument thrives because there's a kernel of truth to it, in that if you wanted to pick a programming language based purely on expressive shininess, you'd write in OCaml."

Eh, I think OCaml is actually the least shiny language in its reference class: Haskell, Scala and Rust are all shinier.

I think that taste for languages varies a lot, and certainly plenty of excellent programmers find Go is to their taste and statically typed functional languages are not. But I think it's also true that there are lot of people who like Go with Java/Python/JavaScript as their only points of comparison, and who would actually prefer OCaml or F# if they tried them.