An Abridged Introduction to Go

I work primarily in Python but have been wanting to expand my toolkit. I saw a lot of Python programmers get excited about Go so I decided to give it a shot. I spent a few weekends reading through the docs and tutorials and even managed to get some toy programs written.

There's a lot to like about Go: I adore goroutines, "go get" is very slick, and the language as a whole is really well thought out. Really, I do like Go.

That said, it always felt like I was fighting against Go's type system rather than having the type system work to my advantage. It's almost as if going from a dynamically to a statically typed language resulted in a bigger "culture shock" than I anticipated.

I'm curious if other developers coming from dynamically typed languages experienced the same thing. Especially if Go was your first taste of a statically typed language.