Could not agree more with this comment. Having been a hard-core Perl and C programmer most of my life for Nike and IBM and now teaching Go as one of our main languages to very intelligent 8-18 year olds I can say Go has a solid future. I’m glad a language as well thought out as this insults “intelligent” programmers like this author (who would not have been hired by me or any of the teams I’ve ever worked on, in fact we fired “intelligent” programmers like this for a reason). Enjoy your intelligence.

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Agree 100 per cent with you! As a very “unintelligent” software developer with over 25 years of IT experience (using C, C++, C#, Objective-C, Java, Python, FORTRAN, Smalltalk) and having led the Windows NT group at ATI Technologies (now AMD), I am surely a fool for loving Go and its nice, clean syntax, productive toolchain, and ample library ecosystem. My pragmatic nature and preference for easy-to-learn tools clearly reflect a profound lack of intelligence. Shame on me!