I'm not calling you out, but in general when I hear people compare Go to languages with more "intense" typing (including Erlang, though possibly not Elixir) I find it funny. Go has a very crude type system and can be more easily compared to C (in terms of types) than anything else I think.

If you ever try to do anything as interesting with types as you could in a dynamic language, you'd immediately start transporting interface{}s (essentially void*) all over the place and lose all static typing [0] (and context[1]).

[0] - https://github.com/eatonphil/gimpy/blob/master/net/http/http...

[1] - https://github.com/eatonphil/gimpy