Totally agree. Except I went from Java to Scala to Go, so coming from Scala Go was even more underwhelming. Scala had just as simple aync sugar and doesn’t have stereotypical Java boilerplate, and had powerful collections functions. Golang felt like an antique.
And, IMHO, no implicit nulls, proper sum types, pattern matching was all it needed be considered modern. If left the last 40 years of compiler/language research outcomes on the table. Such a pity.
And give that the std lib is not riddled with implicit nulls that mean all kinds of things (like any kind of error, or absence), this will not be fixed in the next decade. What a waste.
