&gt; but looking at the language itself to try to identify the reasons for its relative success is doomed to fail.<p>Is it? People who use Go and people who designed Go both appeal to the language design. It&#x27;s users write blog posts about that deliberate balance of simplicity and power they encountered in language, which made them productive. And it&#x27;s creators write posts and give talks on their deliberate approach to language design to achieve this balance. It seems like both, users and creators, are in perfect alignment here.<p>So why language design can&#x27;t be the reason of it&#x27;s success?