A short post with some thoughts on how writing Go code has helped me learn to stop worrying and love auto-formatting tools.

Go code is terse. Not Python-terse, but terse. And unlike Java, you don't find yourself constantly resorting to the security blanket of objects - something that Python (mercifully) can go either way on.

I used Java when I taught computer science at South Seattle College, and remember telling students once that one day, students taking CSC 142/143 would be using Go instead of Java. These days, I'm not as certain of that, but given that Go's strengths are …