[can3p]

This and similar post are a bulletproof way to start a flame war.

Last time it was generics that were missing, now everyone is raging about sum times and of course explicit error is a topic of constant concern and why panics and not exceptions?

Go is well designed to build good software quickly. Easy dependency handling, good tooling, vast ecosystem.

Go is well designed to help developers with automation and help them catch mistakes, that's why it's easy to parse and all language design decisions take that into account.

It's also designed to produce a lot of code and that requires the language to be easy to understand and programs easy to tweak and that's what it provides, since you'll have a lot of developers tweaking the code.

We're in the industry of shipping different kinds of products and that imposes different constraints and results in different languages being used. Also, different people care about different stuff and languages form clusters of similar minded people around them, that's a choice too.