It's the exact same criticisms every single time about other languages too. Unsafe C, slow Python, verbose Java, messy JavaScript ecosystem, etc.

When criticism is valid, it doesn't matter if it's novel or not.

> verbose Java

Ironically, golang codebases tend to be more verbose than Java.

They've traded horizontal verbosity for vertical; you probably won't find a `SimpleBeanFactoryAwareAspectInstanceFactory` in Go; instead you'll probably find a long list of functions implementing some interface (`Stringer`, `Valuer`, etc).

I want to make a pasta comparison but can't think of a good one for Go, since it's often quite straightforward / not-spaghetti. Java is often lasagna code though.

> - it's the exact same 4-6 criticisms every single time

This isn't necessarily an argument that those criticisms are wrong, though.

Well, there's a lot more than that: https://github.com/ksimka/go-is-not-good