The Go code is bizarre? That's the introductory Go tutorial showing off Types in Go (http://golang.org/doc/go_tutorial.html) Not a single line of the Go code is mine (I just copy and pasted the entire tutorial in a single file). If you want to blame someone for making Go look bad - blame the author of the tutorial - or better yet the inventors of the Go Language.

If you think OOP is not important for building and encapsulating large software code bases, then we operate in different worlds and Go wasn't designed for my purposes in mind. Feel free to keep using Go as a better C and I'll stick to mainstream languages without these deficiencies (aka trade offs).