[commentzorro]

Please take this with its intended ;-)

So here we've got a Ruby/Blub programmer looking down the power continuum at Go and sees language deficiencies. He looks up the power continuum and sees maybe Haskell and Clojure etc. Since Go was created[`1] to be down the power continuum and contains nothing weird, new, or even particularly different, I don't think the adage holds.

[1] citation needed

Seriously, why do you think Go was created up the power continuum? It may be, but what features or idioms (barring channels) put it "up there?"