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You can find plenty of well articulated rant online. The gist is Go ignores all research in programming languages. Is very hard to use properly. It is really hard to produce safe APIs. You are encouraged to pop threads (preemptive user threads) all over the place. And may the god of lost state saves you from the hell of data races. Also what is this slice/vector type thing? Don't forget to check `err`, nope not this one, the other one.

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> The gist is Go ignores all research in programming languages.

This is an assumption and it's IMHO false. Go creators watched all the research, probably closely, lived with its results and were not happy with what they get. Their experience reminded them that less features in a PL make it arguably less expressive, sure, but in the same time it makes it faster to learn and master, easier to read and debug. Writing tools is simpler if a parser for your language can be hacked over the weekend from scratch, etc.

At the end of the day its a matter of personal preferences, but it has, IMO, nothing to do with "ignoring all research in programming languages", quite the opposite.

You start with a dizizlgy large amount states (RAM, storage, network, threads...). The goal of programming languages is to give you a way to reduce the vast number of states as much as possible. Without removing the ones you need to do the work. Each layer of abstraction reducing what is possible, without impeding the work that ultimately needs to be performed.

In my humble opinion, you should learn a bit more about, easy vs simple, complicated vs complex.

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