[coryrc]

> the experience was not substantially different from Go

I think the (a?) reason for that is a (otherwise good) shift to production being immutable. When you aren't allowed to interact and change code in a running system, you lose a massive advantage of CL over simpler languages. When the answer to every error is "send a 4xx or 5xx to the client" then having a powerful error-handling system is similarly pointless. When you only write CRUD programs like everyone else, you're just plugging together other's libraries and not creating novel techniques or fancy math. In this world all CL's advantages are negated.