[asylteltine]

That’s because it is easy to use. Maybe you use too much python or Java but go was designed to specifically allow people to memorize the entire syntax, truly.

Want to make a function or variable or field public? Just capitalize it. That’s it.

Error handling? Check if the error isn’t nil and handle it, otherwise move on. No need for silly things like try except.

And there are no magic functions because everything is explicit.

Go is just simple and pleasant to use.

[tesdinger]

Try except isn't silly it shortens the code a lot. An exception can simply break out of a function, checking for error requires an explicit check at every line of the function and an added return statement to get out of the function.