I think that comment might actually have been because of this quote from one of Go's creators, which was posted further up in the thread: “The key point here i

I think that comment might actually have been because of this quote from one of Go's creators, which was posted further up in the thread: “The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.” -- Rob Pike