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Re:What Golang Is and Is Not by iends on Sunday August 21, 2016 @12:32PM (#12331486)
There are lots of tools in Go that make up for issues people have with the language. Another example is the IDE macros people use for the standard if err != nil {} block.
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Re:What Golang Is and Is Not by spriggan3 on Sunday August 21, 2016 @12:47PM (#12331552)
> Another example is the IDE macros people use for the standard if err != nil {} block

Which doesn't make code easy to read when there are 10th of these blocks in a single function.

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Re:What Golang Is and Is Not by skybrian on Sunday August 21, 2016 @12:51PM (#12331571)
It may be 4 lines of code where 1 or 2 would do, but I don't find it hard to read.
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