Complaining about strict evaluation, the std lib not doing what he wants it to, the type system, the lack of heap profiler/threadscape, and .... demanding Golang handle zero values in his preferred way is basically him whining it ain't Haskell. I could blubber about it not having power conjunctions or self intervals or whatever if I wanted Golang to be J, which would be a similarly moronic roster of complaints. In reality golang is a basket of compromises like any other programming language. There's vastly more good stuff built in it than Haskell, despite Haskell being older and more theoretically amazing, so they must be doing something right.

His only criticism that resonated with me was go get defaulting to head, which befuddled me when I first saw it, but that's a compromise too; one oriented to the large codebases that golang is designed for. It's actually a pretty good compromise compared to the propeller head Haskell dork "Things break backwards compatibility in Haskell, and the users just update their code because they know the library author did it for a reason." -aka this appears to be a statement from an academic wanker who obviously never had to ship on a timeline in his entire fucking life.