Go is not a perfect language, but I've been hard-pressed to find one and so I've stopped looking. Here's what I like about Go. Go is crazy boring. You type thi

Go is not a perfect language, but I've been hard-pressed to find one and so I've stopped looking. Here's what I like about Go. Go is crazy boring. You type things. You hit return. You type the next thing. Error not nil? Type more. There's something very sequential, linear, methodical about it all. I suppose in part it's gofmt. It may also be a byproduct of any strongly typed language, but unlike many of those languages, Go feels simple and reasonable. I actually think this is how programming serious applications should be. A little boring. Nothing too fancy or cute. No refactors to fit some new great abstraction pattern. Not to wax nostalgic — in fact, I can't, because I wasn't even born — it reminds me of paper tape in old computers. The card gets punched, it feeds in, and the computer considers and executes your instructions. We're still doing that, really. Programming should be simpler. Sometimes I think we go out of our way to make it more complicated because we are experienced and bored. :)