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I don't care what we call it, it's still confusing as hell.

Yeah, indirection can be confusing to new programmers, but its absolutely fundamental, so it's better to get used to it than to complain about it.

Except I have 32 years of daily practice and plenty of experience from most paradigms/languages/kinds of software out there. I'm guessing similar goes for some of the hundreds of people who complain about the same thing.

This attitude is exactly why many choose to stay away from Go and its community. The constant denial of any problems and claims that everyone else got it wrong. I don't know where it started, most probably Pike & co; but its not very constructive.

If you think that's my attitude, you don't know me. I have lots of criticism for the language, but pretending a pointer isn't a pointer isn't the solution to people not understanding indirection.

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