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    [Go] doesn't show much awareness of advances that have
    already been made.

Go's response would be to question that the things you're talking about are, in fact, unqualified advances. Especially in the context of large (ie. LOC) systems applications, maintained by large (ie. dozens to hundreds) of developers.

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Java, C#, Python, Lisp, and Erlang would all criticize Go for an unqualified new exception system which has not proven that it can handle itself in the context of large systems applications, unlike all the previous languages.

    Java, C#, Python, Lisp, and Erlang would all criticize 
    Go for an unqualified new exception system

panic/recover is not an exception system in the sense that you mean. Nobody is writing large applications and using panic/recover for error handling. (At least, I hope not!) The idiomatic way of handling errors in Go is returning them explicitly, and checking for them at the call site.

    func canFail() (int, error) { ... }
    
    value, err := canFail()
    if err != nil {
        // handle
    }

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