The meaning seems clear at least to me. Language revisions tend to focus on adding features or capabilities or expressiveness. Go is famously, aggressively, mi

The meaning seems clear at least to me. Language revisions tend to focus on adding features or capabilities or expressiveness. Go is famously, aggressively, minimalist from an experiential point of view. What rsc is saying is that nothing is going in to Go 2 unless it noticably simplifies things, and unless the incremental addition is itself is as simple as it can get. This is definitely not the typical way languages evolve.