[majewsky]

Type safety is a spectrum, not a binary choice. Having used Go for 10 years now, next to other popular languages like JS and Python, I think it squarely falls into the "more type-safe than not" half of the spectrum. But it's definitely a positive development that, as this discussion shows, the Overton window of type safety is shifting towards the safer part of the spectrum.

[the_gipsy]

That's true. From that perspective it is safe. But from the perspective of for example Elm and Rust, I would say go ends up in the other half of the spectrum - but still close to the middle.