[monoideism]

> The verbose style of writing your own loops is very readable

That depends entirely on what style of programming you're most accustomed to. I've primarily written functional code the past several years, and even in that relatively short time, it's become for me in general easier to read chained/piped/composed function expressions than equivalent loops.

But sure, I can understand if you don't want that flexibility in Go. It's a fair position if you want the language to be confined to a certain imperative style of programming.

However, it's interesting to note that even if one can do loop-based imperative programming in Haskell and OCaml if one so desires, it's not idiomatic. Presumably, same would apply in Go.

[vicda]

When there's only one way to do it, everyone is or soon will be accustomed to it.

I'm not a fan, but it fits with google's goal when creating the language.

[monoideism]

Agreed. I think that's probably one of Golang's strengths (and I've used it a bit professionally several years ago). I can understand if they want to keep it hyper-standardized.

For devs who want a more functional approach, there are a number of alternatives, including Rust (which is not a fully functional language, but has many aspects thereof).