At least part of the issue for me was that many keywords/syntax rules don’t match anything I’m familiar with, even considering “C-like” languages. I have simil

At least part of the issue for me was that many keywords/syntax rules don’t match anything I’m familiar with, even considering “C-like” languages. I have similar issues with Rust actually. There’s a lot of sugar used that you have to grok and that takes some time. On the other hand Python, C#, Java all stick with a set of fairly familiar conventions. In terms of syntax (and only syntax), the learning curve is more intense with Go; perhaps similar to the initial alienation provided by JavaScript. My experience has been that once you are being paid to learn a language these problems mostly disappear. Alas, no one ever paid me to learn Go.