Peter Bourgon · A theory of modern Go2017 06 09 tl;dr: magic is bad; global state is magic → no package level vars; no func init The single best property of Go is that it is basically non-magical. With very few exceptions, a straight-line reading of Go code leaves no ambiguity about definitions, dependency relationships, or runtime behavior. This makes Go relatively easy to read, which in turn makes it relatively easy to maintain, wh
