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Everything in Go is controversial, contentious, or at-war with itself.

* It's name

* Nils

* Pattern matching

* Enums / Sum types

* Generics

* Error handling

Other ecosystems have recognized that pattern matching and sum types are the way forward as well as null safety.

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We're actually even at the point where Java has added language support for sum types and pattern matching!

Java is also the most prominent example of a lack of null safety. Once Java gets around to fixing that in the next century or two, then Go will really be behind.

It’s fine, on the other hand it’s simple, concise, strong std library, and the std is written using go

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