[wrs]

Go is superficially readable, but be careful. It has some (in my experience) quite non-evident semantic aspects, such as interface nils and channel “edge cases” (which aren’t “edge” at all, you do have to handle them). The Timer thing they just fixed is an example of how the Go core team really expects you to read the manual.

The good news is that the language and stdlib docs are concise and extremely clear. One of the really impressive things about Go.

[rowanseymour]

I've been writing go for about 7 years and still occasionally footgun myself with nil interfaces. Drives me insane that they try so hard everywhere else to protect devs from themselves but that still exists.