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I see this in the Golang forums a lot.

The people who moved to Go a while back, when it was unpopular, because they loved it, aren't that vocal (apart from the continuous cries of "just use the standard library!").

The people coming to the language from other languages, not because they like Go but because they need to use it for work (because it's now a popular language), are very vocal about how they don't like it because it's not what they're used to (though usually this is phrased differently - usually complaints about Go's "inexpressiveness").

I was one of the people who loved VB6 and struggled with VB.Net, wandering through JS and PHP, until I found Go and fell in love with it immediately. I would hate for history to repeat itself and the Go team to make the same mistake that MS did with VB.



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