Yeah, same, used Go fulltime professionally for 10 years, not into this newer stuff.

People have been trying to do this sort of thing in Go for as long as I remember; it's nothing new and has not and most likely never will gain much uptake.

The stages of learning a language are something along the lines of:

1. Force language patterns from previous language

2. Frustration

3. Write library to make it easier

4. Anger

5. Acceptance