I find reading Go code quite the opposite. It takes a considerable amount of time to figure out that the given 20 lines of code actually do `filter f . map g .

I find reading Go code quite the opposite. It takes a considerable amount of time to figure out that the given 20 lines of code actually do `filter f . map g . fmap sum`, for example. Simplicity in the language means _your_ code has to implement the complexity of the algorithm.