[Spivak]

I mean you can see it with your own experience, folks will post a 50 line snippet of ordinary C code in an blog post which looks like you're reading a long dead ancient language littered with macros and then be like "this is a lot to grok here's the equivalent code in Python / Ruby" and it's 3 lines and completely obvious.

Folks on HN are so weird when it comes to why these languages exist and why people keep writing in them. For all their faults and dynamism and GC and lack of static typing in the real world with real devs you get code that is more correct written faster when you use a higher level language. It's Go's raison d'etre.