There is such thing as "local-looking" in Go. That's the point -- the compiler and runtime make the decisions as needed and the programmer doesn't care. (Obvio

There is such thing as "local-looking" in Go. That's the point -- the compiler and runtime make the decisions as needed and the programmer doesn't care. (Obviously there are some consequences to this, wherein you may find yourself with heap-based allocation in hot paths that you didn't expect. But in terms of productivity, I think that not caring and having no distinction certainly reduces one thing that the programmer has to think about.) I think there would be analogous design decisions that remove various low-level concepts in many languages. For example, Python ints are arbitrary precision, which removes a whole set of concerns from the programmer. Rather than being "weird", I think this is just optimizing for a particular kind of programmer productivity.