The lack of true exceptions are annoying, but what kind of environment are you writing in that it's so expressly prohibitive to quit after a day? I've written error matching functions (and now there's errors.Is()) that mostly achieve the same things exceptions do, so I'm struggling to match being so overwhelmed by textual errors that you ignore every other improvement with the language over others.
> what kind of environment are you writing in that it's so expressly prohibitive to quit after a day?
I think it’s admirable to try other languages for a day. I’ve spent less than a day noodling with dozens of languages that seem interesting. I’ve never tried dart, kotlin, elm or Scala. Why not? Is it prohibitively expensive? No. I just haven’t taken the time and the initiative.
More people should spend a day with go, even if they don’t stay around it’s still nice to learn something new!
