[th___4]

Everything in Go is controversial, contentious, or at-war with itself.

* It's name

* Nils

* Pattern matching

* Enums / Sum types

* Generics

* Error handling

Other ecosystems have recognized that pattern matching and sum types are the way forward as well as null safety.

[kaashif]

We're actually even at the point where Java has added language support for sum types and pattern matching!

Java is also the most prominent example of a lack of null safety. Once Java gets around to fixing that in the next century or two, then Go will really be behind.

[freecodyx]

It’s fine, on the other hand it’s simple, concise, strong std library, and the std is written using go