On my phone, but his examples just show that he's new to Go. He's using like 5x add much code as he needs to.
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* the author (and everyone else who complains about Go) simply hasn't made any appreciable investment in learning Go
* the language itself doesn't naturally lend itself to most programmers easily finding the most succinct/powerful expressions available, instead providing a grain that favors clarity over other values
* the documentation and tutorials available don't teach programmers how to write succinct and expressive Go
I think that can be said of pretty much all programming languages.