That I agree with.

But Go is anything but modern on a language front. It shares almost nothing with Rust, which actually has a modern type system (from ML/Haskell).

Even if we disagree about exceptions (I do like them as they do the correct thing most of the time, while they don’t mask errors, but include a proper stacktrace), go’s error handling is just catastrophic, being an update from c which is even worse is not a positive.