[enneff]

Most Go programmers I know, including the language designers themselves, have a lot of experience in more feature rich and expressive languages. What appeals is the simplicity of Go, which gives you a lot less of a language to think about, so you can just think about solving problems instead.

“I like a lot of the design decisions they made in the [Go] language. Basically, I like all of them.” – Martin Odersky, creator of Scala.

I don't think anyone would accuse Odersky of being a "blub programmer."

[jeremyjh]

Martin has something nice to say about everyone's project. I seriously doubt he likes that a new language was created in 2009 that allows null references. But we'll never hear about it if he doesn't. Still, that doesn't make him a Go programmer.