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In the comments, Rob Pike more accurately describes this as orthogonality of features.

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    This is true of any language.

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        Yes, many languages have much more richness and goodness. I’d wager pretty much any programming language can let you do some very interesting things you never predicted.

        And Go is shamed by C++’s level of emergent behaviour, so if this is even an attribute you should value is unclear.