In many ways 2009 decided my future career. I was thirteen and had just scored my first goal in a competitive football match - a lovely one-two with the winger finished by a powerful strike into the top left corner. Sadly the talent scouts were missing that day. Whilst I was dreaming of Wembley, Go was announced to the world.

Go soon attracted a large following. People loved how simple it was, how optimised it was for web services and the tooling like gofmt. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction however, and so it was with Go. People hated how simple it was, how it was just for noddy REST APIs and the overzealous tooling.

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