> I refuse to do things that many don't even give a second thought - such as, do I really need to implement the Into<T> trait and use x.into() to do a conversion? Isn't it better if I just write the function that I'm using explicitly?

You crazy bastard. I can see you're not going to get promoted by power-hungry bosses anytime soon! Seriously, I love C. As a webapps guy I picked up Go for my latest projects and have loved it. Feels like the C compilers of yore, that ran fast and had straightforward semantics, even in the tooling.