The size of the language and the (more or less) one-way-to-do-things style mean that reading someone else’s go—say, from a library you’re depending on—is really

The size of the language and the (more or less) one-way-to-do-things style mean that reading someone else’s go—say, from a library you’re depending on—is really easy. The chance you’ll run into language features you aren’t familiar with (which can happen even to long-time writers of some larger languages) or one of several competing and possibly now-deprecated 3rd party bolted-on features making up for painful deficiencies in the base language (ahem, JavaScript) or some nutty flow-obscuring “helpful” nonsense is low.