It's the Go fanatics who are the ideologues here. Anything Go has is important, anything it doesn't have is trivial. What a horrible attitude to bring into any kind of technical discussion.
I've defended Go against detractors who say it's worthless because it has mandatory GC or doesn't have generics (which I do consider a weakness but not a fatal one). There's nothing particularly wrong with Go, but there's not all that much special about it either and it does have flaws. Can you name some other feature that (a) distinguishes Go from Every Other Language and (b) matters? Something that might sway a CEO, as we were discussing? "Goroutines" perhaps? Riiight. That CEO will be really impressed. Don't project your bias onto others.
I've defended Go against detractors who say it's worthless because it has mandatory GC or doesn't have generics (which I do consider a weakness but not a fatal one). There's nothing particularly wrong with Go, but there's not all that much special about it either and it does have flaws. Can you name some other feature that (a) distinguishes Go from Every Other Language and (b) matters? Something that might sway a CEO, as we were discussing? "Goroutines" perhaps? Riiight. That CEO will be really impressed. Don't project your bias onto others.