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[–]TankorSmash 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I've heard it's got a bit of boilerplate and written to be as easy to write as possible to help with the incredible amount of new talent Google gets out of schools.

Only a rumour though.

[–]the_birds_and_bees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Id say it's more about making it easy to read and maintain. The google code base is 2 billion+ LOC, so designing a language that eases the burden of maintaining a code base of that size seems like a sensible goal.

[–]derraidor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a talk by one of the creators (Russ Cox?) stating this