[ctvo]

> it's also very verbose code (due to the simplicity of the language). That makes it very hard to read go code and build a mental model in your head.

Verbose does not equal complex usually.

Something that's a single method call on a built-in type may be 3 lines in Go. This doesn't make it hard to understand or keep in your head. "This iterates over a map" is the same regardless of the lines of code. You can very quickly skim verbose code, especially in a language like Go, where idioms and conventions are identical across many code bases.

[shakezula]

Agreed, somewhere else in this thread someone complained that Go doesn't have an object iterator function and I really don't understand how k, v := range <map> isn't an intuitive approach, especially when range is so common in Go. Sure, it might be two more lines of code but it's not like it any more difficult to reason about or mentally track.