[yamtaddle]

> And so they didn't. They didn't design a language. It sorta just "happened".

Maybe I'm wrong, but when I use Go it definitely feels designed: specifically, it feels designed to discourage the worst or most-alien-to-the-language's-intended-style dep in your dep tree from being too bad or too alien. That is, the design seems to me (and again, I could be wrong and this effect was in fact an accident) most concerned with keeping the quality and style-distribution of the language's ecosystem, or of a given codebase, on a nice, narrow, pointy curve rather than a flattish wide one, so much so that the authors would prefer an expert be a little annoyed with some part of the language to making doing the Wrong Thing too easy for less-adept developers (or for "experts").

If that was in fact unintentional, well, then my favorite quality of the language (and IMO the most interesting thing about it) was an accident, I suppose. And it's not like I've dug deep into the history of the language's development, so that may be the case for all I know.