Having lots of options to write things optimizes the happiness of the developer writing the code, but reduces the happiness of the developer reading the code (w

Having lots of options to write things optimizes the happiness of the developer writing the code, but reduces the happiness of the developer reading the code (which might be the same developer, a few months later). That's one of the things Go got right IMHO (although some people hate it, because they feel constrained if they're not able to write code in some "clever" way).