Is there objective evidence for this? As a Go programmer a semicolon in an if statement screams to me. I can see it possibly being in issue for new Go programmers- but I don't remember it being one for me.
I didn't do a survey but I remember that and frequently punting on error handling (`res, _ = something_which_could_error()`) showing up enough in the projects I saw on Github to stand out as a trend when I was writing a few first programs. I certainly hope that's just sampling error.
Is there objective evidence for this? As a Go programmer a semicolon in an if statement screams to me. I can see it possibly being in issue for new Go programmers- but I don't remember it being one for me.