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In other words: reduce everyone to the lowest common denominator.

>>15155+(OP)
But I'm a special snowflake! This won't do!

>>Gigabl+38
Of course a lot of good developers won't like it because it is a change that makes them worse off.

If you are a good Haskell/D/Lisp developer then switching to Go will probably halve your productivity over the long term.

There are a lot of benefits to using Go but lets not pretend there aren't any downsides.