> Go doesn't let you build abstractions - it offers what
> it does, and if its not enough - tough luck.
This seems contradictory. Go offers primitives, and lets you build exactly the abstractions that make sense in your domain on top of those primitives. The argument here appears to be that the primitives are too low-level, which is a fair-enough point, but not at all what you're claiming.
Of course: turing tarpit, greenspunning, yadda yadda yadda, but his point remains: Certain abstractions with a low cost/benefit factor are just not expressible in "idiomatic" Go.
