Learning Go by porting a medium-sized web back end from Python
I can agree with most of the article, but for some it looks like we have not been using the same language ecosystem at all.<p>Go really feels opinionated around the wrong things, in order to claim "simplicity" as a feature:<p>- No generics just mean you're going to be handing interface{} all the way in your stack, it makes things more complex and less readable for no reason (and less safe)<p>- error handling which is essentially string-based, in 2017? Give me a type system, please<p>- gofmt is a good idea (just like clang-format or yapf), and having it is great, but the maintainers specifically refuse to add simple features, saying "running it in an automated process is not supported", despite all github projects already having it in their automated CI suite<p>- go test is good, but in the end it is found lacking<p>- dep, well, if you don't mind dumping the code for all your deps in the source tree, it's probably ok, but it solves a deficiency that the language should not even have (see next point)<p>- stability: the language itself is fine on that, but the ecosystem really isn't. The fact that they don't even have the package management quality of python (which I find awful already) is baffling. I don't even know how they could think "yeah, github-importing is a good idea, let's do it". Go is eight years old tomorrow and you still have to rely on third-party tooling to do proper imports that don't burn your house.