On: Eight years of Go

[TheOtherHobbes]

Go has human-sized simplicity. Programming language complexity is limited by human cognitive limitations, and Go has a small cognitive load.

This makes it feel like a very intuitive language.

That doesn't mean it is an intuitive language - just that it feels like one for a specific class of problems.

Personally I enjoy using it for the same reasons as everyone else. But... I'm also aware it's quite an old-fashioned language, with some bumps under the floorboards where useful things were hammered down to make them go away, instead of being fully solved.

[krylon → TheOtherHobbes]

There is a good chance you are right.

But as long as it is humans writing most/all Go code, fitting a human brain well is a valid design choice.

Yes, it has its fair share of problems. But for now, I find it preferable to anything else we have got.