For me going from JVM and CLR ecosystem of programming languages into Go for backend development is a downgrade.

The language design makes sense in the context of Oberon (1987), and Limbo (1995).

Now when there are so many options finally building on top of Standard ML, and Lisp heritage, having to settle with Go feels like a downgrade.

I code since 1986, if I wanted if boilerplate error handling, or having cost as the only mechanism to declare constant values, there have been plenty of options.