I’d argue that doesn’t make Go hard to learn, that makes Go hard to adapt to for people who are used to and like Java. Ie You’ve still learnt the language of Go even if you haven’t warmed to its idioms.

But semantics aside, your comment here beautifully illustrates my point about how generalised statements can be skewed to suit any argument. Take your last paragraph where you used the term “easy” in a multitude of ways, each carefully selected to promote your existing opinion of Go:

> Golang is easy to learn right now because it's basic like say Java 1.2. But since it likes to ignore what other languages do I wouldn't say it's an inherently easy language.

This isn’t an impartial point you’re making. It’s an opinionated one. Which is fine in itself because you’re entitled to opinions but it does demonstrate the pointlessness of arguing about generalised statements where everyone is going to infer their own context based on their own biases. Ie Bob might find language X “easy” under a different context than Sally finds it difficult. But those context are not equivalent despite the adjective they’ve used being the same.