Yeah but I think for non-trivial programs, say 10k+ lines of code, it's really difficult to show proper examples, not to speak of exhaustive coverage. Go in par

Yeah but I think for non-trivial programs, say 10k+ lines of code, it's really difficult to show proper examples, not to speak of exhaustive coverage. Go in particular doesn't have many fancy language constructs and a lot of well written code in Go 1 might look a bit repetitive, especially the error handling. But once you wrote a larger program and followed best practices with error handling, you might be delighted how much more compact error messages are and still offer a lot of greppable things to debug after. Probably there are languages that have a really expressive syntax that solve problems also in a scalable manner. For instance Python with its list comprehension that are a real code and time saver for software that does a lot with lists. (No coincidence it's so popular with ML.)