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Every other major programming language is cargo culting as much "functional programming" as it can bolt on to its chassis. Which is then WAY overused by a small number of self-styled "10x-ers", to dump a bunch of unmaintainable write-only code into your codebase before jumping ship and abandoning its support a few months later.

Go and Python code may have significant difference. But there is spiritual overlap in the sense that Go really encourages a straightforward imperative programming style, which makes its code more accessible to a wider range of developers.



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