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I, for one, deeply appreciate any project which isn't afraid to do things differently when they decide there's a better way. I see it similar to iOS not supporting Flash, or Angular 2.0 rethinking things.

You can't change everything, but it's what you do differently that gives your project value.

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Sure, but date formatting? That's where Go is going to differentiate itself? Even though it still uses a C-like format string? This seems like exactly the kind of area where leveraging the existing conventions would be a no-brainer.

It isn't the format string syntax that is the problem that they're trying to solve. I see this as being an iterative, backwards-incompatible improvement on the existing format convention. Changes in convention don't have to be all or nothing.

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