> everything was Java, which couldn't make a binary. Then the crowd jumped to JS, where we ditched integers and true parallelism. Python freed us from speed. Go came along, promising to remove generics and exceptions, and to finally give us back our boilerplate.

That paragraph made me chuckle, thanks.

> picture yourself happily doing your day-to-day coding without the existence of nulls

I've seen it, with Elm and Rust, and now I hate go's "zero values" too because it makes everything a bit more like PHP aka failing forward.