[stretchcat]

Holy spin. Rob Pike was explicitly talking about young inexperienced programmers who are 'not capable of understanding a brilliant language.' He wasn't talking about experienced developers and made that as clear as he possibly could. Go is made simple for novices, not safe for veterans.

[SR2Z]

You don't really get a choice when you decide you're going to write a project in a language. Senior devs will be required to work in the same language as the junior devs.