alt Hacker News> I love inaction as a default decision
The thing is, inaction is not simply "not taking an action"; Inaction is taking active action of accepting the current solution.
> I doubt that the best proposals are so horrible for some people that they’d hold a grudge and leave Go.
But people may leave go if they constantly avoid fixing any of problems with the language. The more time passes, the more unhappy people become with the language. It will be a death by a thousand cuts.
I love go. But their constant denial do fix obvious problems is tiring.
> But people may leave go if they constantly avoid fixing any of problems with the language.
For many people the current Go error handling just isn't a problem. Some even prefer it over the overengineered solutions in other languages. This brutalist simplicity is a core design feature I personally enjoy the most with Go, and forcing me to use some syntax sugar or new keywords would make it less enjoyable to use. I also don't think that generics were a net benefit, but at least I'm not forced to use them.
Go is a cemented language at this point, warts and all. People who don't like it likely won't come around if the issues they're so vocal about were fixed. It's not like there's a shortage of languages to choose from.