[fnord123]

Depends where someone comes from. If they are from a weakly or dynamically typed language (C, python, Javascript) then Go is quite ok. If you're coming from Haskell, OCaml, or Rust, then sure Go might be frightening.

[peaky_blinder]

They're all weakly typed languages but C is statically typed.

[simiones]

Python is generally considered quite strongly typed, though dynamic. That is because Python has relatively few implicit conversions, and especially few that are surprising ("1" + 1 is an error, not 2 or "11"; and unsigned short + unsigned short does not equal a signed int).

[kaba0]

I think parent didn't say anything to the contrary, or maybe it was edited?

[fnord123]

First iteration was didn't include the part about haskell/ocaml.