A lot of the "cons" in the technical section just sound like a large engineering organization making pragmatic decisions. I can't think of any company working at that scale that's successfully integrated a non-trivial amount of functional or logic programming. As much as hackers might not like it, there are reasons that coding at that scale is almost always a matter of banging out a lot of imperative code in a boring language like Java.
And I'm definitely not the only one that appreciates Go precisely because it doesn't play the Scala game of integrating every single academic PL research feature of the last 20 years but instead tries to be as practical and simple as possible.
And I'm definitely not the only one that appreciates Go precisely because it doesn't play the Scala game of integrating every single academic PL research feature of the last 20 years but instead tries to be as practical and simple as possible.