That statement would be more credible if you identified that unholy mess of Go code so that we could form independent opinion.
Or if you showed a few examples of "code that is simple in most other languages was a drawn-out mess in Go" or how Go's "type system was an obstacle to be worked around" when compared to type system of other mainstream languages like C++/Java/C#.
As it stands, you're in a minority. The consensus is that Go codebases are among the most readable.
Go codebases are readable in that you can figure out what a given line is doing - but when 3 out of 4 lines of code are duplicated error handling, it's difficult to figure out what the "success case" of even relatively simple functions is.
> As it stands, you're in a minority. The consensus is that Go codebases are among the most readable.
Your statement is as unsubstantiated as his. But at least the parent doesn't feel as arrogant claiming he represents the majority. Go doesn't magically makes code more readable than any other language. It's just something some gophers like to think since they often start projects from scratch.
> The consensus is that Go codebases are among the most readable.
Among who--other gonuts/gonads/gophers? In my neck of the woods a Go application over a few thousand lines is already a yellow flag and a Go application, period, requires defending the choice over TypeScript or Java. (Difference being, of course, I'm not holding up my experiences as objective.)
I find the statements about the type system very credible. I've been programming go full time for nearly 3 years and not a single day goes by that I'm not bitten by it.
As far as whether go makes it easier or harder to make easy to manage code bases I don't know that it matters one way or another. I've written bad code in other languages and go. I will say, I've never seen a large go code base, and I suspect if I did it would suffer very much from things that people complain about with the go language.
Or if you showed a few examples of "code that is simple in most other languages was a drawn-out mess in Go" or how Go's "type system was an obstacle to be worked around" when compared to type system of other mainstream languages like C++/Java/C#.
As it stands, you're in a minority. The consensus is that Go codebases are among the most readable.