Same for me. I tried really hard to enjoy Go, but it became an incredibly frustrating experience.

The language itself was frustrating to me in many of the ways outlined in the article.

The community was similarly frustrating.

One anecdote that really stuck with me was when enquiring about explicit language support for the error handling pattern. E.g.:

    f, err := os.Open("foo.bar")
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

It is something you perform extremely frequently, and it takes up an incredible number of lines of code. The response from the Go team was (paraphrased) "We don't see the value in making this pattern more terse when you can just write a macro for your editor to automate it".