Go's entire schtick is being simple, eschewing language complexity in favour of letting the programmer handle it themself. Like C, but with pointer safety and garbage collection.

We learned from C++ and Rust that languages can be so smart that people can't effectively use them. Go is the opposite. It's so dumb that anyone can use it, but it doesn't have some native language features you might want.

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insanitybit 3 hours ago | parent [-]

How is this simple? It's basically a hint to `go vet` that uses a special interface pattern. I'm baffled by what some people call "simple" lol

	▲	a2ff6eeb0 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		How much additional complexity do users need to be aware of when writing new code because of the way this was implemented? Adding new features makes the language bigger, for something that Claude tells me is used 20 times in total in the entire Go codebase.