C++ is definitely something to behold in terms of syntax. It's hard to justify much of the type-system syntax (meta-templates, `sizeof...(Args)`, and `std::forw

C++ is definitely something to behold in terms of syntax. It's hard to justify much of the type-system syntax (meta-templates, `sizeof...(Args)`, and `std::forward<Args>(args)...` come to mind). I'm picking on argument-packs here and ignoring the beauty of initializer-lists, operator-overloading and user-defined literals (which allow great syntax in user-code but their own syntax is haunting in library-code). I doubt that C++ would look the same if the syntax were created from scratch with the current set of features. So it's fair to say Go's syntax is unfortunately limited in expressiveness (and I too find myself mystified by how to express ideas neatly with go), but I have a hard time imagining C++ is something worth emulating without adding a whole bunch of subjective caveats to what "should" be avoided.