Perhaps this will be Go's version of Python's whitespace issue. People will balk at the seemingly arbitrary nature of the syntax and avoid trying the language.

Perhaps this will be Go's version of Python's whitespace issue. People will balk at the seemingly arbitrary nature of the syntax and avoid trying the language. However, after time, the rest of the language's advantages will lead people to get over their syntax aversion and try the language. Then after 6 months they'll look back and wonder what the big fuss was before. Not that I have any experience with that...