The reason that people find Go to be so much more readable than anything else is because there's often only one way to do the thing you want. The entire languag

The reason that people find Go to be so much more readable than anything else is because there's often only one way to do the thing you want. The entire language spec is like 2 pages long, and the standard library is relatively thin - generally there are not cases of two libraries that can be used to accomplish the same goal. This has the general effect of making every piece of code familiar, because every piece of code is forced to use the same ideas to solve adjacent problems. The foil to this is javascript, where you've got a bunch of different ways to set up functions and promises and async and threading and communications and error handling, etc. Javascript is a very flexible and high level language, but that also means everyone solves problems in their own unique way.