> As a newcomer to Go, a lot of their design decisions made a lot of sense when I realized that a lot of the design is based around this idea of "make it impossible to do something that could be dumb in some contexts".
You are indeed a newcomer :) God bless you to shoot feet only in dev environments.
It sounds like you may have some friction-studded history with Go. Any chance you can share your experience and perspective with using the language in your workloads?
It's mostly dead locked networking code. Hard to investigate, hard to search the culprit. And of course code bases without linter for err propagation and handling. And this-null for "methods".
You are indeed a newcomer :) God bless you to shoot feet only in dev environments.