[blaisio]

Go is my default language for any non-client-side project. That said, I agree with all the criticisms, except for the one about unused variables/imports and the lack of warnings in the compiler. I'd also add one of my own - I'm an expert go programmer, but I still panic sometimes when dealing with error handling. It is still not as easy as it could be to produce useful error return values.

[luxurytent]

Indeed. panic is not overly recommended but there's a few places you can nudge it in that just make sense, rather than ensuring the error will successfully propagate up the chain.

[blaisio]

Haha I meant panic as in become scared, not the go panic.