It's very poetic sentiment but doesn't really address the issue of trade-offs.
Is writing if a { .. } else {} so much worse than if a then .. else .. end (Ruby requires then/end instead of {}.
Python's indentation based syntax (which I think is great) cleverly solves the problem of requiring explicit statement delimiters but it's also a reason why lambda: is limited to one-liners. There's no free lunch.
To Go's credit they did put a lot of effort and design thought into removing line noise from syntax (compared to C) by e.g. adding an automatic semi-colon insertion rule, eliminating braces around if argument etc.
Overall, while syntax is not as clean as Python's, it comes pretty damn close.
Is writing if a { .. } else {} so much worse than if a then .. else .. end (Ruby requires then/end instead of {}.
Python's indentation based syntax (which I think is great) cleverly solves the problem of requiring explicit statement delimiters but it's also a reason why lambda: is limited to one-liners. There's no free lunch.
To Go's credit they did put a lot of effort and design thought into removing line noise from syntax (compared to C) by e.g. adding an automatic semi-colon insertion rule, eliminating braces around if argument etc.
Overall, while syntax is not as clean as Python's, it comes pretty damn close.