This is textbook bikeshedding. If you have a bias for C syntax, everything else will look niche, weird, or "clearly insane" to you. But there's no reason that we should prefer C's syntactic decisions for assignment and equality operators in a non-C language. Go itself deviated from them, and the authors were instrumental to C itself.
> But there's no reason that we should prefer C's syntactic decisions for assignment and equality operators in a non-C language.
Yes there is - because almost every language uses the same convention, and it's a totally reasonable one. You have to have a really good reason to go against that and I don't see one.
> Go itself deviated from them
Go didn't deviate from the C convention. It just added an extra shorthand operator to simultaneously declare and initialise variables. The meanings of `=` and `==` are the same in Go as in C.
> or "clearly insane" to you
I wasn't saying the use of `=` for equality is clearly insane. `[` is clearly insane for other reasons.
