[eta_carinae]

> I am one of the Go readability reviewers, and I review thousands of lines of Go code each week.

If you're on the Go readability team, you are going to see thousands of lines of Go code each week, as a simple consequence of selection bias. Your observation doesn't invalidate my friend's claim.

Something that would invalidate that claim would be how many lines of Go are submitted into the Google code base every week compared to Java and C++. My friend is simply saying that this ratio is minuscule.

[kenko]

His claim is still an effective denial of the claim he was denying, namely, that the only people using Go are on the Go team.

[quest88]

Of course it is. There are a ton of existing projects in those languages.