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Well of course you get used to it, like you did get used to C++ (unless you were born that way which I doubt).

It just takes time, you don't want to spend that time getting used to Go and that's perfectly understandable.

I can get used to something and still dislike it.. with Go it's mostly the bracket style, or put differently, the inability to turn off automatic addition of semicolons before parsing. I'd actually rather "have to" put semicolons manually, but no, I have to suffer so others don't have to put an additional line into their style guide.

Yeah I completely agree. Though I think when you really get used to a language and understand it deeper, you tend to understand the trade-offs that were made, if the language is well designed. Then you can still think that the trade-off don't match your requirements.

"you'll get used to it" is a bad measure of usability.

But so is "I am already used to it," and so how do you find an objective, non-biased, measure of what is usable?

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