I found the opposite to be true. With javascript I never saw the package.json not work for the other developers on the team; with go, half of my team can't successfully update vendoring for no apparent reason.

Commands frequently error with messages that are completely worthless.

Go seems to have made up it's own path syntax with things like "...", and commands like "go test foo/bar" will fail with an error message that gives no clue as to the problem, but work fine with "go test ./foo/bar". Why?

What's the command to see if any of my dependencies have a CVE against them? Oh, there isn't one. What's the command to prompt me to pull in a new version of my dependencies? Oh, there isn't one.

This is a language that has made some promise about backwards comparability, but every release seems to break how things are built, and you have to fiddle with bizarre environment variables like GO111MODULE to find the incantation to make things happy again.