I don't know why but my reaction to this is a strong negative. It seems like exactly the opposite of what we should expect out of programmers.
The whole Go philosophy rubs me the wrong way.
The whole Go philosophy rubs me the wrong way.
I mean this only jokingly: Who gets to decide what programmers are supposed to be like? You?
As someone who tries on a new language every year or two, I love using languages with formatters. Worrying about how many spaces to indent with or other arbitrary things is the opposite of what this particular programmer likes to worry about--I want to jump right in and solve problems with a language, and let the formatter make the code look like it came from a textbook.
> we need to trust people to do engineering and decide for themselves how to use that grammar.