Most of these are a part of the syntax though. When the parent comment talked about syntax, I'd assume that they said it the way most people say that Perl or R

Most of these are a part of the syntax though. When the parent comment talked about syntax, I'd assume that they said it the way most people say that Perl or Rust syntaxes are hard to read. I agree about defer and the walrus operator though. Both can be quite confusing at times, and I think that Go with block-scoped defer and no walrus would be a more consistent language.