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Google is making the opposite argument to support Go as the ideal language for vibe coding (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261133) - i.e., not expressive by design, lowest-denominator, etc.

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The thing I like about using Go for vibe coding is that, as Google and others argue, there's almost always one obvious way to do things, and the standard library is enormous so there's almost always an easy choice of library to do things with. As a result of that, almost all the Go in the training set for these models is going to be decent.

Compare that to, shall we say, more permissive (and more popular!) languages like python or js where there are untold terabytes of absolute dogshit code out there.

But I find Go annoying because the language isn't very expressive. It takes a lot of code to do fairly simple things, so codebases tend to balloon in size very quickly.

If only the library ecosystem in common lisp wasn't so barren.

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