In the case of Go, it's really advantageous to be able to jump into anyone's project and be able to read it without the additional impedance of adjusting to the

In the case of Go, it's really advantageous to be able to jump into anyone's project and be able to read it without the additional impedance of adjusting to the new formatting model. I didn't think this would be that significant until I started participating in the Go community. This works together with Go's reduced feature set, so everyone's code ends up looking very similar.