[mwsherman]

Maybe, in the sense that Go is designed for the use case of large teams of everyday coders (i.e., not PL enthusiasts). A similar use case to Java, no doubt.

That said, Java (and C#, which is where my experience lies) are fundamentally bureaucratic languages. Things like hierarchical namespaces and several layers of accessibility very much mirror their human-org counterparts. Explicitly implemented interfaces are a way of saying “I comply”.

Go, by contrast, is much flatter. Which, perhaps, is where organizations are heading. And interfaces are implicit, which is a way of just doing the job instead of declaring compliance.

[geodel]

I also feel the same. I pulled src code of OpenJDK and Go. JDK code is sprawling over 1000s of directories and deep hierarchies and so many folders just to contain other folders. Go code looks far more cleanly organized.

[mrits]

I wonder if you have taken the time to use Go. I no longer use it but I found it much more enjoyable than C++. I went back to Python for my side projects.

[mwsherman]

Yes, a decent amount, I am a fan: https://github.com/clipperhouse/gen