Brooks, Wirth and Go
Perhaps someone will answer this related Q..  Having coded in Python for years, I'm underwhelmed by claims of Go's simplicity. Python, with its batteries included, seems to me simpler to code in and for understanding existing code, and easier to produce more maintainable code in  as far as I can see. (this may partly reflect my prior experience to be fair) When I looked at Go, it looks like one has to do acrobatics and write a load of code to get around missing basic libraries and features in the language. So, I can see Go is useful for being very lightweight, and a good replacement for C++ for many things, but as for it being simple.... well, really?  I guess does "simple" mean, relative to the likes of C++ ?