Comment by slipperydippery

The benefit of the language being small and "normal" idioms mostly followed and the std library being good-enough that people rarely import another dep for something it can handle is that it's by far the easiest language in which to read my dependencies that I've ever used.

If I hit a point where I need to do that in pretty much any other language, I'll cast about for some way to avoid doing it for a while (to include finding a different dependency to replace that one) because it's almost always gonna be a time-suck and may end up yielding nothing useful at all without totally unreasonable amounts of time spent on it, so I may burn time trying and then just have to abandon the effort.

In go, I unhesitatingly hop right in and find what I need fast, just about every time.

It's the polar opposite of something like Javascript (or Typescript—it doesn't avoid this problem) where you can have three libraries and all three both read like a totally different language from the one you're writing, and also like totally different languages from one another. Ugh. This one was initially written during the "everything should be a HOF" trend and ties itself in knots to avoid ever treating the objects it's implicitly instantiating all over the place as objects... this one uses "class" liberally... this one extensively leans on the particular features of prototypal inheritance, OMG, kill me now... this one imports Lodash, sigh, here we go... et cetera.