This has always been my takeaway with Go. An imperfect language for imperfect developers, chosen for organizations (not people) to ensure a baseline usefulness of their engineers from junior to senior. Do I like it? No. Would I ever choose it willingly? No. But when the options at the time were Javascript or untyped Python, it may have seemed like a more attractive option. Python was also dealing with a nasty 2-to-3 upgrade at the time that looks foolish in comparison to Golang's automatic formatting and upgrade mechanisms.

> An imperfect language for imperfect developers

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.