Go is not an exciting language in terms of syntactic sugars. Its very (deliberately) boring in that respect.
Go is like the ultimate grug-brain language. It appeals to me at least because the language makes it harder for someone to make a clever and incomprehensible solution to an algorithm. In Go one is strongly inclined (both in terms of the language and the community around it) to do it in a plain way.
The hopeful upshot is that I will actually be able to understand what the hell I and my coworkers were thinking 6 months down the line.
Go is not an exciting language in terms of syntactic sugars. Its very (deliberately) boring in that respect.
Go is like the ultimate grug-brain language. It appeals to me at least because the language makes it harder for someone to make a clever and incomprehensible solution to an algorithm. In Go one is strongly inclined (both in terms of the language and the community around it) to do it in a plain way.
The hopeful upshot is that I will actually be able to understand what the hell I and my coworkers were thinking 6 months down the line.
Listen to Rob himself on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAkCSZUG1c&t=14m35s