[icey]

Hi, mediocre programmer here!

I would add a bullet point to the list of reasons I like go: "Boring to people who bring up Haskell in every programming conversation" ;)

Seriously though, there are huge classes of problems in which the "interesting" part of the problem isn't the software that gets written but the business needs it solves. I am a fan of functional programming (I started the Clojure subreddit, and do a lot of "for fun" programming in it), but I've never run across a problem at my business where I felt like I needed to crack open Okasaki's book, or thought "this would be easier with an applicative functor".

Something I've enjoyed about learning Go is the open & accepting nature of the community; I don't think I've ever heard someone called "mediocre" because of other languages they use.

I am happy to feel like I don't have to be an incredible programmer to read the source code of the language I use, or the libraries I pull into my projects. I just want to get shit done so I can work on the problems that I find interesting, and for lots of us, that's just not going to be yet another implementation of datalog.