The brainfuck quip is a bit more potent when the Go advocate in question has made it clear that they think language simplicity and code simplicity are equivalen

The brainfuck quip is a bit more potent when the Go advocate in question has made it clear that they think language simplicity and code simplicity are equivalent. That didn't happen here, but it's tempting to assume that's what the advocate is thinking when they praise language simplicity so much.