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It was intentionally designed for programmers with limited skill.
Go language creator Rob Pike:
> The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.
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> They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language
What a coincidence, since Rob Pike wasn't capable of designing a brilliant language.
Such a weird take from him since Go has a bunch of pit falls that are not needed at all.
> It was intentionally designed for programmers with limited skill.
No. That is not true. It was designed as a language so programmers of all levels can be productive at the scale of what Google does and across possibly many different teams, no matter your prior background. Google does a lot at scale and a language that is easy to pick up and handles concurrency seamlessly is definitely a helpful tool.