[Taek]

Lines of code is a complete red herring. It takes me less time to read and review 500 lines of Go than it does 100 lines of JavaScript.

Sometimes - especially in other languages - you see a piece of "elegant" code that does something complex in line 3 lines, and you think "hmm, this is a puzzle, and I'm going to be staring at it for 20 minutes before I'm convinced that its 100% correct."

We actively tell our engineers not to be clever. Write boring code that is obviously correct, and don't worry if your boring code is 25 lines when the elegant code is 8. It takes you longer to write the elegant code, and it takes the reviewer longer to read it, and often times (though not always ) it's also more difficult to test.

I love Go because of how boring and consistent and easy to read it is. The language and the task of "programming" melt away and instead you get to focus on solving problems.

[VirusNewbie]

Study after study has shown people fail at repetitive tasks, it is likely you do a much poorer job reviewing that 500 lines of Go code than your javascript.

Using generics isn't 'clever'. It's like saying a loop is clever. It's abstraction, the opposite of clever.