I appreciate you adding context to your negative comment. I wouldn't really call it feedback, though, as you kinda just said "I hate it" a couple different ways.

What didn't you like about it?

Can you elaborate on why?

Writing code that does a lot of IO gets very repetetive quick - `if err != nil` is just stupid. Different libraries have different conventions on matching on errors. Then there's the inability to know if an interface pointer is valid. Comments that change the way the code is built. The type system felt like it was forcing me to expose either interfaces that are either too restrictive or too open.

So the whole "quitting smoking" thing was...a happy coincidence? Did you go cold turkey? What were the nicotine withdrawal nightmares like? I had fierce ones when I quit

Switching jobs helped a lot. Not writing Go, I think definitely helped.

At least it's not JS, the modern stack is awful and I miss the times when we used jquery and everything worked in IE6 with 2MB of RAM

Stepping from one pile into another is not a valid argument as to why standing in the original one is bad.