Another point, Go has always been pitched as a simple, what you see is what you get, general purpose language. The case for re-defining the meaning of a '+' sym

Another point, Go has always been pitched as a simple, what you see is what you get, general purpose language. The case for re-defining the meaning of a '+' symbol, for example, is a conscious decision to ensure that the language remains as explicit as possible, as you alluded to yourself. As a language it's not really used for doing dot product on a matrix, whereas Scala for example, there's a pretty clear case for operator overloading because it's more geared towards complex numerical cases where that might make more sense