[NateDad]

terseness is not a feature Go is striving for. That being said, it's still more terse than most other statically typed languages, simply due to type inference. You do have to write out some loops that other languages provide syntactic sugar for... people from those languages call that verbosity. Gophers call it clarity :)

[cgag]

Well, it's not so much syntactic sugar as having the power to abstract them away via generic functions like map, which I'd argue are both more clear and less error prone.

[pjmlp]

> power to abstract them away via generic functions

It will take a while for that in Go, if ever.