The author's style is not idiomatic for C or Go. He uses shortcuts for compactness at the cost of readability. Normally this alone is not an issue, but using n

The author's style is not idiomatic for C or Go. He uses shortcuts for compactness at the cost of readability. Normally this alone is not an issue, but using non-idiomatic code is a weak argument when trying to describe language readability differences.