> or too young to remember former languages.

Do you have any good examples? Not trying to argue, just genuinely curious as someone who hasn't been in this field for decades.

Basically go was designed ignoring all the research and progress that had been made in programming languages until then.

It was designed with contempt for developers, for example disallowing developers to create generic data structures, or lacking a decent way of error checking that is not extremely error prone and verbose.