Coming from a C++ heavy background, I do miss generics. But I have been trying to be cautious of bringing my C++ habits to Go, opting instead to embrace the alternate model Go brings to the table. spf13 goes over some of these points in his talk here: http://vimeo.com/115776445

I do not use exceptions in C++ so that was not a big change for me. Our code needs to be relatively deterministic (even though we are not hard real-time yet) and exceptions hamper with that goal.

I incorrectly used the word "multi-threadedness". Concurrency in go is very straightforward. Channels are extremely lightweight and are different from forking (which creates a new process with its own address-space).