I largely agree with your sentiment. Go’s simplicity is what makes it such a useful tool for me. It’s worth protecting, and that means setting a very high bar for proposals that add new things to the language.

However, 2 things I would be enthusiastic about if it got included in the language: - having ‘?’ As syntactic sugar for ‘if(err != nil) …’. Would make code more easily readable, and I think that is a benefit for programmers trying to keep things simple. - Sum Types. I’ve had a few cases where this would’ve been very useful. I consider the ‘var state customtype = iota’ a bit too easy to make mistakes with (eg exhaustive checking of options).

Like generics, I hope that when that happens, they take a very deliberate approach on doing it.