While you're still reading these, I want to say that while I've never ended up using Go for any shipping projects, I've been a fan since day 1. And it hasn't been lost on me that in the languages and ecosystems I do use in my professional life, good decisions from Go have propagated through the software world.

One thing that really sticks in my brain is gofmt; it makes it clear that there's still relatively low-hanging fruit where you can make a really good decision that spreads to the rest of the world on merits alone. It's an inspiration.