I recommend reading this. It addresses several of your concerns. https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article
No decisions were made to annoy developers. Different people coming from different languages see different things as "flaws," when in reality they are just differences. Also: https://golang.org/doc/faq#Does_Go_have_a_ternary_form https://golang.org/doc/faq#Why_doesnt_Go_have_feature_X Enjoy the article! It's very informative and will give you a lot of insight into a lot of decisions that were intentional decisions -- not accidents. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.