To me, what makes Go simple language is limited set of building blocks, and being very opinionated - this mostly relates to syntax and what the core language pr

To me, what makes Go simple language is limited set of building blocks, and being very opinionated - this mostly relates to syntax and what the core language provides out of the box. With Go, you only need to understand looping, branching, channels, slices and you're mostly good to go. Ease is measured by how a language may be used to solve a problem. As an example, text-wrangling with Perl is easy - but you may have to do it using complex (i.e. not simple) representation. Back to Go - channels are a simple concept, but are not (always) easy to work with if you do not put a lot of thought into your concurrency model. Edit: I just thought of another way to express the difference between "simple" and "easy". The notation of adding "1+1=2" is simple, however proving that "1+1=2" is not easy (at least at the level of elementary students).