> For me the biggest PITA lately with Go is dealing with json. Exhaustively listing every potential field in order to type it is maddening.

Sounds like gojson[0] would make your life a lot easier - it automatically generates the struct definitions for you.

[0] https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson

I actually like this feature. If I truly don't need a field, I leave it out. If I do need it, I have a clear definition of what it is.

This feels so much easier to work with than untyped scripting languages where I basically get a hash bag and read values out ad-hoc, checking what they are as I go.