[michaelcampbell]

> People tout Go for this all the time

What gets me about go is 2 things.

Its touted as being so easy that a junior dev can pick it up easily; it's targeted towards average developers. Fine, this is a virtue; when Java said the same thing, it's a horrifying blight.

The other is that people seem to mistake motion for action. "The code flies from my fingers" is one way I've heard it said. And, sure, you have the same error catching boilerplate (which again, in go is a virtue but other languages seems to be considered a sin) 1000x, as if the clicky-clicky of the keyboard is some measure of productivity.

It's got a big "blub paradox" thing going, to my eyes. I don't find it elegant at all, or maybe I mean not very expressive.

Taken ad absurdum, I have a language that only adds 1 to a variable. I can understand that language in milliseconds. But I can't do much with it. Maybe go hits a good balance, I dunno, but I found it quite tedious.