not sure this counts as flamewar, so i'm risking some sanctions, but still.. languages can be concise and code can be about the problem without any magic. look

not sure this counts as flamewar, so i'm risking some sanctions, but still.. languages can be concise and code can be about the problem without any magic. looking at code for the sake of satisfying language limitations means not looking at the code for solving your problem. it may be comforting to look at boilerplate because you're familiar with it, but it's taxing away your ability to grasp the substance. visual locality matters because that's how our brain works and there can't be visual locality with boilerplate. furthermore everything that's visually remote has to fit in our very limited capacity to mentally juggle concepts, that's why locality and generality (fewer concepts to juggle) is important. golang lacks both generality and conciseness. i have no idea why it's found the audience it has beyond my initial angry comment and maybe also because it's "new".