Comment by ruicraveiro
10 hours ago
Go was never about being easy to write (thought it is), but it was always about being easy to read and it is, by far, the easiest language to read that I've ever used (and throughout the decades, I went through Basic, Pascal, C, Java, JavaScript, C#, TypeScript, Ruby and Python). That becomes even more important if you are not writing the code yourself...
it's too verbose, yet not explicit.
you need to know the conventions to spot what's not there (did you miss the error handling? or the magic comment for the whatever codegen serializer? c'est la vie!)
edit: just a few comments below an even better description of what I'm trying to convey: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48264853
Disagree, if you miss the error handling the code won’t compile (unless you return _, which should be easy to spot)
The magic comment stuff is very much “do it once” and it’s done (for example if using go generate).
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