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Yeah but as a prospective Go user, the fact that the language is opting for pain turns me off.

Enjoy your ecosystem, I'm going to continue to use languages that actually like me, and care how my experience is.

I would say you can't know if it will cause you pain until you try it. Using the metaphor, some people actually like certain types of pain, and pain is something that is very hard to understand simply by listening to the complaints of others.

It is all fun and games until someone at your job introduces Go into your ecosystem unfortunately then you're sort of stuck.

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