Going through this, I now realize one of the significant reasons I took such a big liking to Go. They realize [1] how important it is to make it easy not just for a programmer to work with the language, but also for writing tools that work with the language. And this happens to be very important for what I do. [2]

[1] http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.slide#34

[2] https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception#conception