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To be unattractive to people that feels that simplicity insults their intelligence might be Go's greatest feature.



Heh, good point.

Ingenuity in code for solving real problems is great. Often times I’ve seen those who know a language deeply write code in ways that makes it remarkably hard to read. Mostly it’s because language features are used in unexpected ways which the author feels is great for x reason, but reduces readability.

With Go, it’s actually really hard to write opaque code like that since the language is so laser focused on low level primitives. And honestly... for core systems, I think that’s an incredibly good thing to have.




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