Go 1.18, which Google touts as "the culmination of over a decade of design", delivers a number of significant updates to the programming language that have long been requested by developers.

The Go team surveyed 11,840 developers for its 2021 Go Developer Survey and found 54% were "very satisfied" with the state of the language while 38% said they were "somewhat satisfied".

Perhaps this is why I see the ethos behind the programming language Go as both a rebuke and a potential corrective to my generation of strivers. Its creators hail from an era when programmers had ...