You’ve read a lot of posts about the shortcomings of the Go programming language, so what’s one more. Lack of sum types Type assertions Date and Time Statements over Expressions Erroring out on unused variables Error handling Lack of Sum types A “Sum” type is a data type that can hold one of many states at a given time, similar to how a boolean can hold a true or a false, not too different from an enum type in C. Go lacks enum types unfortunately, and you are forced to resort to craft...
