>Already feeling a sense of dread having been through this game 10s of times before with other languages.
What? I'm a student still learning new languages and it took me no time to look up and quickly grok duck typing. If that prevents you from learning a language...
Seriously... it's an hour to skim and read through. Hour or two to put together a decent non-trivial server demonstrating channels. I really don't know what your big long rant is about. It's not hard to find reasons Go was designed the way it was, find what it's goal is and read enough intro docs to get up and coding with it easily.
What? I'm a student still learning new languages and it took me no time to look up and quickly grok duck typing. If that prevents you from learning a language...
Seriously... it's an hour to skim and read through. Hour or two to put together a decent non-trivial server demonstrating channels. I really don't know what your big long rant is about. It's not hard to find reasons Go was designed the way it was, find what it's goal is and read enough intro docs to get up and coding with it easily.