--- title: Go’s Big Mistake | daily.dev description: ThePrimeagen shares his frustration with Go's recent direction, particularly the addition of generics on method receivers in Go 1.27 and iterators. He argues... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/go-s-big-mistake-jtc7xq4gv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Go’s Big Mistake | daily.dev og:description: ThePrimeagen shares his frustration with Go's recent direction, particularly the addition of generics on method receivers in Go 1.27 and iterators. He argues... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/go-s-big-mistake-jtc7xq4gv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jtc7xq4Gv.png og:image:alt: Go’s Big Mistake og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Go’s Big Mistake **[ThePrimeTime](https://daily.dev/sources/primeagen)** · 11 min read · 9 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary ThePrimeagen shares his frustration with Go's recent direction, particularly the addition of generics on method receivers in Go 1.27 and iterators. He argues these features contradict Go's core philosophy of simplicity and uniformity, warning that codebases will become increasingly bespoke and harder to navigate. He contrasts this with what made Go special: one way to do things, explicit error handling, and a strong standard library. He introduces Odin as a spiritual successor that maintains the simplicity and clear purpose Go once had, and expresses he no longer wants to use Go as a result of these changes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#golang](https://daily.dev/tags/golang), [#language-design](https://daily.dev/tags/language-design) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/go-s-big-mistake-jtc7xq4gv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Go’s Big Mistake","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/go-s-big-mistake-jtc7xq4gv","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/go-s-big-mistake-jtc7xq4gv"},"datePublished":"2026-06-08T12:59:37.210Z","dateModified":"2026-06-08T13:01:54.503Z","description":"ThePrimeagen shares his frustration with Go's recent direction, particularly the addition of generics on method receivers in Go 1.27 and iterators. He argues...","image":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WqSWZuGS9pc/sddefault.jpg","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WqSWZuGS9pc/sddefault.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"ThePrimeTime","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"ThePrimeTime","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--J5-GjDeo--/f_auto/v1704628081/logos/primeagen.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/primeagen"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/go-s-big-mistake-jtc7xq4gv","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":9},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"golang,language-design","timeRequired":"PT11M","video":{"@type":"VideoObject","name":"Go’s Big Mistake","description":"ThePrimeagen shares his frustration with Go's recent direction, particularly the addition of generics on method receivers in Go 1.27 and iterators. He argues...","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WqSWZuGS9pc/sddefault.jpg","uploadDate":"2026-06-08T12:59:37.210Z","duration":"PT11M","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/jtc7xq4Gv","embedUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/WqSWZuGS9pc"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ThePrimeTime","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/primeagen"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Go’s Big Mistake"}]} ```