Spf13 is leaving Google
When I initially started Go, it felt so easy to pick up. Then I wrote a component in it and it felt overly verbose. Then I had to revisit the component and had to do some heavy refactoring/additional testing and realized that the language, to certain extent, didn't stand in the way. After all these iterations, I think Go is leaving an-even-bigger-adoption on the table for the want of following:<p>1. Functional operators like map/filter/reduce - all of these would be optional but would save SO many  lines of code.<p>2. Add simple conveniences - e.g. "contains" to check if a key is present in a map. Again those who don't want to use these, don't have to.<p>3. Error handling boilerplate - something to the tune of "?" operator in Rust