Precisely this.<p>While we&#x27;re talking about what it popularizes, there&#x27;s also the sense of epistemic closure that I&#x27;ve never seen to the extent that I do in the Go community. You&#x27;re right in that it doesn&#x27;t bring anything new to the table; that&#x27;s its developers&#x27; intent, but its fans have tried to turn it into some kind of revelation. Which it&#x27;s not, of course, it&#x27;s Java 1.1 with a somewhat nicer syntax. And that&#x27;s not a crime, it&#x27;s not unforgivable--but it&#x27;s also <i>nothing special</i>, and by god am I so very tired of its partisans holding it up as the best thing since sliced bread because they don&#x27;t know what the rest of the world looks like.<p>(This expressly acknowledges the--rather few, IMO--Go fans who <i>do</i> understand the rest of the world and use it for their own reasons; I think they&#x27;re hurting themselves, but I respect the choice.)