Comment by jiehong

One thing Go took from C that I dislike: overly short variable names (like in interface names when implementing function are usually 1 or 2 letters, but also chan!).

Other random things I hate:

- first element in a struct, if unnamed, acts like extending a struct;

- private/public fields of method based on capitalisation (it makes json mapping to a struct have so much boilerplate);

- default json lib being so inept with collections: an empty slice is serialised as null/absent (empty list is not absence of a list, WTF, but the new json lib promises to fix that json crap);

- error type being special, and not working well with chanels;

- lambda syntax is verbose;

- panics (especially the ones in libs);

- using internal proxy in companies for packages download is very fiddly, and sucks.

But, the tooling is pretty good and fast, I won’t lie. The language won’t win beauty contests for sure, but it mostly does the job. Still weak at building http servers (limited http server libs with good default headers, very limited openapi spec support).