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Same goes for "Go saps all the fun out of the coding". As an ex-Ruby programmer, with Go I've never had so much fun programming since tinkering with C in college. Go just doesn't get in the way of implementing ideas, which is the core of the fun.

Same here, go feels "fun" for some reason.

Maybe its the well-thought standard library, maybe its the way the compiler helps you. Maybe its because we can actually catch bugs at compile time instead of those runtime errors and silent drops of javascript

Agreed. A lot of the op is bit hyperbolic in expressiveness.

Of course Rust is more complex. Lifetimes and the borrow checker are hard to get used to

Those aren't complex features, just hard/unfamiliar features. Rust has many fewer features overall than C++ and D.

I understand "Rust is more complex" was a comparison with C, not C++ and D.