Always initializing with a default and no algebraic types is an always loaded foot gun. I wonder if the people behind golang took inspiration from this.

The simplest way to understand go is that it is a language that integrates some of Google's best cpp features (their lightweight threads and other multi threading primitives are the highlights)

Beyond that it is a very simple language. But yes, 100%, for better and worse, it is deeply inspired by Google's codebase and needs