Perhaps, but I think the fact that it's such a boilerplate-oriented language, requiring explicit type declarations, arguments, and returns, and lacking lambda e

Perhaps, but I think the fact that it's such a boilerplate-oriented language, requiring explicit type declarations, arguments, and returns, and lacking lambda expressions, it really discourages cleverness and subtlety, making it easier to read than dynamic and functional languages. It also lacks the pointer arithmetic, bit shifting, and operator overloading of C/C++ that make those languages so difficult to read. Java may be repetitive, verbose, and dumbed-down, but that definitely keeps it from being a "write-only" language. I do agree that Go is a good compromise, very readable but with less boilerplate, and probably an improvement on the Java paradigm, but the lack of generic data structures makes it kind of hard to use Go as a Java replacement.