[Vanclief]

I don't think that its bad for the motivated engineer, its just a trade off between expressiveness and simplicity.

I personally find myself choosing go because I feel I am way more productive with the language. By keeping me constrained, I have less choices to make on how I solve the problem, and focus more on solving the problem.

[frakt0x90]

I agree about the constraints. That was my biggest complaint when I learned Scala. Every single thing I built there were 10 different ways I could do it and it really slowed me down. I'm sure if I stuck with the language I would get a feel for the idiomatic ways over time but... I'd rather just make stuff.

[CuriousSkeptic]

I suspect I would agree with this today, but just for the contrast. At the time (about 12 years ago now I think) coming from Java it felt like someone lifted the ceiling, suddenly I no longer felt like always bumping into the lid of the jar when trying to abstract away repetitive code.

[kaba0]

Then go with java which is just an all around better language.