Yes, I like how Go does (or doesn't do) inheritance. Very clojure-like. By type declarations I just mean the map[string]int syntax. Not a deal breaker, but sort of silly. 

 why is it silly? how else are you going to indicate something that is later referred to as varname[key] ? 

 It's not conventional, most other languages do something like Map<string, int>. It's like MM/DD/YYYY time format. Idiosyncratic vs logical