alt Hacker NewsThe purpose of human language is communication of concepts between two individual thinking people. The purpose of a programming language is literal instruction for a machine.
These are not directly comparable just because we use the same term to describe them.
To your second point, I wholeheartedly disagree. Go is not a difficult language to learn, nor is it particularly unique compared to the type of language it attempts to emulate. In fact I think it’s one of the easiest languages to learn if you already have experience in C-likes because of how obvious it is what it’s trying to do.
I think it is just a bad language. It’s simple to figure out how you need to use it, but it is obnoxious and tedious to do it in that way.
> The purpose of a programming language is literal instruction for a machine.
Toggle switches are for giving instructions to a machine. Programming languages are a higher level abstraction over the toggle switches so that the intent of the toggling can be communicated with other people. You don't just write code, run it through the machine, and then throw it away. Other people, and probably even yourself, will read what was written again and again and again. The language is very much for people first and foremost, with the side effect of also being understandable by machine.
> I think it is just a bad language.
It is – nobody is suggesting otherwise – but you didn't answer the question. Are you writing Go with Go syntax, or another language with Go syntax? Perhaps the best way to answer, if it is that you just didn't know how, is to post some sample code that you find to be obnoxious and tedious and we can see if it is that way because of Go, or if it is because you are trying to use patterns from other languages that don't fit the language.