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I can appreciate Go's design philosophy of simplicity and emphasizing fast tooling + one way to do things.

But as someone who has done a ton of functional programming, to me it is just too conservative of a language. There actually has been progress in the PL space the past 50 years, and I personally prefer a language that includes them.

I think OCaml strikes a better balance between power and simplicity, it is probably the closest to Go in the functional programming space (and is also a systems language). It has a blazingly fast compiler, it's easy to understand how it executes things, compiles down to a single binary, the tooling is good. Very similar advantages to Go.