Comment by usrnm

Adding an element to a nil slice works, but adding an element to a nil map panics. time.Time uses its own epoch incompatible with anything else. defers are function-scoped instead of block-scoped. The list goes on, these are just the first ones that came to my mind. And they are not some magical tradeoffs, they are just poor choices. I like go, but no, it is not well-designed