I would guess it is the `if err` lines and other such gofmt artifacts that expand the LOC. Go is higher-level, but it's not terse. It's deliberately pretty explicit. IMHO 100 lines of Go might well do the same as 100 lines of C, but the Go will be much more readable code.
If we judge for ourselves we will only be checking our opinion.
Could you provide a readability algorithm in some form of executable that we can run against the 100 lines of c and Go code — then we'll be able to judge correctly.
