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Bingo, Go is geared towards junior programmers. Somebody who exits the university has to be able to feel productive within two weeks of using it. That's literally the cornerstone of the entire design and all things follow from it (C-like syntax, attempt to minimize the number of language constructs, and the heavy focus on imperative programming which is what they teach in college).

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Oh the unintended irony. Go's syntax may be simple enough to pick up in a few weeks but writing "good" Go code turns out to be much much harder. Idiomatic Go can take a year or two to internalize and introducing non idiomatic Go code into an established code base can really muck it up.

You can see this clearly in job listings looking for Go coders. Almost nobody is looking for junior level Go coders with less than a year of experience. Companies are looking for Go coders with at 2, 3, 5+ years of experience instead.

A simple syntax may provide benefits, but it doesn't seem to be the benefits most companies want in practice after all.

> Almost nobody is looking for junior level Go coders with less than a year of experience.

I have never seen a job posting asking for less than a year of experience with anything.

True, but what other languages or other anythings are doing is at best irrelevant and at worst the entire point.

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