I was originally very excited about Go when I first learned about it. But then I got tired and frustrated quickly after having to listen to the other Gophers telling me that I don't need this or that feature because there is a better way to do it in Go.

Like.

I don't need exceptions because Go function can return multiple values.

I don't need a mocking framework like Mockito because Go has interfaces.

I don't need an interactive debugger because I can debug with command line using gdb.

I don't need named arguments because I can instantiate a struct and call my function with it. (Have you seen Ruby or Javascript code? Almost every function takes 'opts' as a single argument. Go is probably going down this path too.)

Then I learned about Scala. I'm not saying that Scala is better than Go. However, it has everything that I need. :)