That's a take alright. I wouldn't say it's particularly good though. Why shouldn't all languages be easy to understand? Why would anyone want a hard to underst

That's a take alright. I wouldn't say it's particularly good though. Why shouldn't all languages be easy to understand? Why would anyone want a hard to understand language unless it provides benefits significant enough to offset that? Newsflash, most don't. Go has your cross platform, it has your simple code, it has your single executable and it has your performance. That suits the needs of most developers should they be interested in Go at all. The fact that someone with little knowledge can contribute easily to any Go project is a huge benefit to the language. It's simple enough and the code most people write is idiomatic enough that you can drop into any project and know where to start. That is something I can't say of any Java or C# project I've looked at before.