The interesting thing about Go, that can help make sense of all its oddities, is that it was not created to assist the developer.
Go was created for businesses, not developers. The holy grail of a corporate programming language is that all individual developer personality is restricted, such that _you cannot tell from reading code who wrote it_. This is all about long-term, large-scale maintainability for massive code bases at massive corporations.
Disclaimer: I work at Google, I do not represent Google, and this is just my opinion after spending time "on the inside".
Go was created for businesses, not developers. The holy grail of a corporate programming language is that all individual developer personality is restricted, such that _you cannot tell from reading code who wrote it_. This is all about long-term, large-scale maintainability for massive code bases at massive corporations.
Disclaimer: I work at Google, I do not represent Google, and this is just my opinion after spending time "on the inside".