I "love" computer language criticisms, even though I don't believe neither that the perfect language can exist nor that a language can fit all the needs. Anyhow, here I didn't get what's wrong with some of the "issue". For example: you can't get the address of a literal, but you can take the address of a variable. This isn't surprising. And about arrays/slices/maps, append and make: it seems to me fairly logical if you don't disregard what they are. (If I've got the issue, and I am not sure about the exact point.)