Statesments about ease of programming Go are relative.
Go is easy once you internalize its semantics. And this is the kicker of Go, it remains simple even after you have achieved a level of mastery of the language. This is not the case even for a language like Java. Certainly, C++ gurus will have your eyes bleed reading their code.
But this is not the case for Go, for the simple fact that Pike et al have engineered so that you can not do astronautics with Go, without enduring severe pain. So no one does it. Short of Go assembler code, any Go code out there is accessible to an exceptionally wide range of Go programmers. There is something to be said for that.
Go is easy once you internalize its semantics. And this is the kicker of Go, it remains simple even after you have achieved a level of mastery of the language. This is not the case even for a language like Java. Certainly, C++ gurus will have your eyes bleed reading their code.
But this is not the case for Go, for the simple fact that Pike et al have engineered so that you can not do astronautics with Go, without enduring severe pain. So no one does it. Short of Go assembler code, any Go code out there is accessible to an exceptionally wide range of Go programmers. There is something to be said for that.