Ten years of “Go: The good, the bad, and the meh”
Go didn&#x27;t try to be overly clever and abstract.  That rubs quite a few people the wrong way, but it also means you are less likely to have to work with people who try to be clever.<p>My first reaction when seeing Go is that it smelled of &quot;old fart&quot;.  It looked straightforward and unexciting.  I&#x27;m an old fart.  I <i>like</i> straightforward and unexciting. It tends to lead to code that I can still read 6 months from now.<p>I want to make stuff and not endure people boring me with this weeks clever language hack they came up with that expresses in one unreadable line what could have been expressed clearly in 3 lines.