>There are of course good ways of building C++, but those are the exception rather than the standard.

What are the good ways?

You of all people ought to know that your governments of all levels are routinely ignoring laws they find inconvenient.

You have masked secret police grabbing people off the street en masse with impunity, why would states care about pesky laws like FOIA?

Sure, but all those languages didn't have the psychotic design that mandated all your code lives under $GOPATH for the first several versions.

I'm not saying it's awful, it's just a pretty mid language, is all.

Go is okay. I don't hate it but I certainly don't love it.

The packaging story is better than c++ or python but that's not saying much, the way it handles private repos is a colossal pain, and the fact that originally you had to have everything under one particular blessed directory and modules were an afterthought sure speaks volumes about the critical thinking (or lack thereof) that went into the design.

Also I miss being able to use exceptions.