The only way you can conclude that nearly 50% of the people in the U.S. pay not taxes is if you think that the only taxes people pay are income taxes. In fact most people pay payroll taxes, for social security and medicare. Those are about 7.5% of income for most people. 7.5% is a long way from zero.
And then there are sales taxes.
Go has panic/recover, which can serve the same purpose as exceptions in other language.
Go has no immutability concept, so it doesn't have half-assed one.
Yes, focusing on compile time is relevant; I think anybody who writes large C++ programs can see the point of that.
Go has a modularization system by my definition, I don't know what you mean by it.
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
