And that&#x27;s <i>exactly</i> what&#x27;s wrong with all the syntactic-sugar-based language marketing.  &quot;Write your code using X, and you go from 10 ugly lines of C++ down to 3 beautiful (if syntactically weird) lines of X!&quot;<p>Great.  Now tell me how X scales on a 200,000 line project.<p>One of the places people make this mistake is with Go.  Go isn&#x27;t designed to make your 2,000-line project shorter or easier.  It&#x27;s designed to make Google&#x27;s 20,000,000-line projects maintainable for a couple of decades.