[worik]

> It's ... familiar quibbles surrounded by noise.

I found it helpful. It did confirm my priors (Go is useful for a big class of problems) and educate me a bit (uninitialised values set to zero??)

I have compiled some Go (so fast) but written zero Go. I do not like garbage collected languages, but rather a garbage collector than reference counting (I have done a lot of Swift - Why? For money - there could be no other reason)

> I'd love it if you could summarize the thoughtful constructive criticism you saw for the rest of us.

The lack of protections for using uninitialised data structures. I learnt about that from this article. Makes me nostalgic for C