[greendave]

> What you're given is a set of powerful but easy to understand, easy to use building blocks from which you can assemble—compose—a solution to your problem. It might not end up quite as fast or as sophisticated or as ideologically motivated as the solution you'd write in some of those other languages, but it'll almost certainly be easier to write, easier to read, easier to understand, easier to maintain, and maybe safer.

I really like go, and I daresay it makes many things easy to implement and understand, but I do find the flexibility/lack of sophistication allows one to end up writing what amounts to improved C. Great for smaller projects, but surprisingly difficult to manage as it grows.