huh? It's certainly not a pretty language, but it's definitely readable. We use Ruby/Rails and Go pretty heavily at work it's much easier to jump in and grok G

huh? It's certainly not a pretty language, but it's definitely readable. We use Ruby/Rails and Go pretty heavily at work it's much easier to jump in and grok Go code than rails (written by the same engineers mind you). Go removes abstractions (to a fault sometimes) so, anecdotally, it's pretty damn easy to just read and figure out what's happening.