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It was built around software engineering principles (rather than experimental language constructs). The attention to small details (imports via git/bzr/hg, gofmt, go run, etc) deeply resonates with system admins (or at least myself and the OP).

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That's my impression too. The lone sysadmin who has to hack something up and moves on to other work likes Go; real developers who work in teams and have to maintain their codebase a month down the road stay the hell away from it.

real developers who work in teams and have to maintain their codebase a month down the road stay the hell away from it.

As a fake developer, our team has had little issue with code maintenance "a month down the road". I'm not sure what "real" developers" are using but their platitudes must be an effective resource.

Real Programmers wrote in machine code. Not FORTRAN. Not RATFOR. Not, even, assembly language. Machine Code. Raw, unadorned, inscrutable hexadecimal numbers. Directly.

- The Story of Mel.

Real Users hate Real Programmers - FreeBSD fortune

My coworkers whom aren't gurus can read and edit Python code. Go? I doubt it...

How is go so much more complex? The fact that struct types can be passed either by reference or by value?

It's not go. It's the fact I work with admins and analysts that are not formally trained developers. Python and PowerShell are their tools.

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