This is posted in the context of the discussion ongoing at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332830, elsewhere on the front page as I write this.

Note if you are a title-only-before-commenting reader that this is not a generalized apologia for Go, but specifically for the case of porting the Typescript compiler, so reciting the Litany Against Go in a general sense is not really on topic.

(The Litany, naturally, is:

    I must not Go.
    Go is the mind-killer.
    Go is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
    I will face Go.
    I will permit it to pass over me and Go through me.
    And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye 
    to see its path.
    Where the Go has Go'ed there will be nothing.
    Only I will remain.

)