Well, from my 15 years experience for each nice example of ternary operator being useful there are 10 more examples where it's being used improperly and makes c

Well, from my 15 years experience for each nice example of ternary operator being useful there are 10 more examples where it's being used improperly and makes code hardly readable. I know that the typical answer is "it's just bad programmer", but that's where Go chooses different view. Many design decisions in Go were taken with awareness of the social context of programming. If the feature incentivizes using it in a wrong way - it's not a bad programmer, it's a bad feature. Programming language is a language between humans in a first place and it should be readable as much as possible, it should deincentivize using obscure and easy-to-use-improperly things. It so much better when you go to practically any Go repository and find that code is readable and clear. I've never had this experience with any other language before. PS. Found one of the real examples of abusing ternary operators. That was one of the coolest I've seen. And I guess it's easy to understand that the same programmer wouldn't write the same with "if .. else .." blocks in Go. He would realize that it's too verbose and hard, hence probably wrong design, so he need to find better solution within the space of language features. http://imgur.com/a/hjKOe http://imgur.com/a/hjKOe