Go makes it easy to understand what is happening at a micro per-statement level and not a macro level. For me, readability is about expressing __intent__ and no

Go makes it easy to understand what is happening at a micro per-statement level and not a macro level. For me, readability is about expressing __intent__ and not about every machine detail. Writing all that boilerplate is also more error prone. My favourite example: see the following code in Go containsVal = false for _,i := range array { if (i == val) { containsVal = true } } This is one statement in any language with reasonable abstraction capabilities: python: `val in array` Javascript: `array.includes(val)` Java: `array.indexOf(val) != -1` C++: `std::find(array.begin(), array.end(), val) != array.end()` (Actually C++ one is already quite verbose and little distracting, but sure you can implement it better in C++) Go is only so-called modern language in which standard library cannot provide trivial abstractions to convey intent. Instead you have to use interface{} escape hatch or use codegen. The 'Go is readable' meme is misguided.