> you are nowhere near familiar enough with Go to be justified in doing so

Haha, I agree. I wrote it mostly to try to get my thoughts straight, and didn't expect it to be posted to Hacker News. :)

But my criticisms are that these things make Go hard to learn. It may be a great language once you get everything straight.

> No, channels are reference types, too.

Ah, good to know. That wasn't clear to me from my first reading of the docs, but you're definitely right.