The only constant is change. Especially with Go, apparently. It's hard to evaluate the comparison of Golang of today to the one I originally discovered 11 years ago in 2012.
Then, it was a breath of fresh air. Nowadays.. I find myself sighing. It works but the joy has faded.
I think I can sympathise, it's hard to keep up with all the development in PL, so it's easy to convince yourself that all those new inventions are stupid anyway and you don't need them, you'll do it your way.
And then, slowly over a couple of decades, other people will be making it their life's work to add in the things that you thought were stupid because inevitably the need for them surfaces.
Or you've seen an approach fail spectacularly in a programming language you're familiar with, which causes you to throw out the baby with the bath water.
A bit tongue in cheek, but I'm just referring to Rob Pike et al., exceptions, and C++. And I must clarify that by "fail spectacularly" I mean solely from the POV of the aspiring language designer, not necessarily from other language users. People enjoy C++ exceptions now, it seems, in combination with RAII, but back then it was probably a different story.
How many languages go through the first 11 years of life without significant changes? There are lisps, which have no syntax to change, and I guess elixir, which is itself just a syntax for a very mature runtime (BEAM).
Hell, even C underwent pretty major changes from 72 onwards, because every compiler supported entirely different features. Things like void functions and returning structs or unions. Granted, this predated internet distribution of software, so changes overall were perhaps slower within a single implementation, but there were still radical developments happening on a frequent basis.
Can you give an example of a feature where the designers of go failed to consider other languages mistakes? Every discussion of there’s I’ve read has been thoughtful, open, and well cited.
Then, it was a breath of fresh air. Nowadays.. I find myself sighing. It works but the joy has faded.
Bit rot is life.