Yeah, it still very much tastes like Google in many of the worst ways :/ clearly Google isn't actually running the project, it's far too well run for that, but the same general "why would anyone need [that thing nearly the entire open source world does outside Google's monorepo]?" ignorance pervades a lot of it.

Which is a shame because there is quite a lot to like about Go in practice. And in spite of it all I'm thrilled that it is eating into Python's share in a lot of places.