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This is one of the reasons I love Go: simple, clean, concise, expressive, and completely free of dark magic.

Code does what it says, and says what it does.

You don't get to feel so clever doing magic tricks, but you gain a lot of time by not having decipher and debug such magic tricks.

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I believe in a balance, too little magic, and you're working with one hand tied behind your back, too much magic and you're working with blindfolds.

Seriously, try Go for a while, it wont take long before you feel that you have three hands, and more importantly, an extra third eye.

Can you give an example in Go of how you'd solve the same problem as any of the python solutions?

Well actually, people with bizarre build requirements are starting to use clean Go source code as a build target of their increasingly diverse preprocessors. Can't be healthy.

[1]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/LQMv7Zsmsi0/8Aax...

[2]: https://github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata

[3]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9838304/resource-bundling...

[4]: https://github.com/chanwit/kgc

[5]: https://github.com/droundy/gotgo

I use Go and I don't see any particular expressivity or ability to code easier/faster, compared to, say Python.

The benefits are: type checking (if you need it), more speed (but not as much as advertised), and easy concurrency (if you need it).

I think one of the main "marketing" points of Go, in a grassroots way, is that some people coming from Python/Ruby/js etc, that have never (or only very lghtly) used C/C++ before, feel suddenly like they are using a "hard, grown up's language", what with pointers and everything. It's mostly an illusion, though.

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