Go has some really great features, I've written a few thousand lines in it and enjoyed it, but there are some strange hangups that the go designers have that in the end make me think its going to go nowhere. 1. Rob Pike is immensely proud that the language has no generics, but this means that in the last 2 years, there isnt a proper implementation of a linked list that can hold an arbitrary type, or a min-heap, an or…
I tend to agree about the lack of generics - the type of people who design and write standard libraries (e.g. Rob Pike and co.) may find it easy to put these things together, but they aren't representative of the general class of programmers, and there should be easy ways to make typesafe collections available to the average programmer (and making them write the same boilerplate around someone else's empty-interface using code may be mechanical, but it isn't low-effort enough to be "easy"). That said, I generally like the direction Go is taking as a language, and would like to see it succeed.