Shortcoming in a sentence as a noun

On coffeescript's behalf, I've never felt it was a big shortcoming for coffeescript.

And in fact it points out a shortcoming in Go: it doesn't support parametric polymorphism.

So many bugs, gotchas, and misc shortcoming of the dev environment, Obj-C, or the SDK. Every single issue I ran into has now been cleanly answered on SO.

"For me, Go's major shortcoming is its community's lack of focus on readability as compared to Python.

It's very common for people to repeat that claim that Peter Norvig gave in that presentation that design patterns are work arounds for language shortcoming.

The biggest shortcoming is that, since you're using an array, the field is always bounded to the same size and you're always representing every cell, even ones that won't be alive for generations.

It wouldn't surprise me if there was some societal element to it, but it really seems strange/weak/victim-ish to blame something external for what really does feel like a personal shortcoming - after all my own sister doesn't seem to have the same sort of "conditioning".Are there tips out there to help getting over the fear of negotiating?

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Shortcoming definitions

noun

a failing or deficiency; "that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information"

See also: defect