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Re:Go 1.8 Release Notes by PopsiclePete on Thursday February 16, 2017 @02:11PM (#13662646)
I can kind-of-do generics with code generations, hate exceptions, and nil is only weird the first time you use it and before finding the FAQ entry.

I really, really doubt that this supposedly-huge crowd of developers exists who are ready-anytime-now to jump in Go and are being held back by things like you mentioned.

Because even if Go had all those things, I'm sure you would scoff at its lack of Monads, inability to easily create DSL's, presence of Garbage Collector, and no compile-time turing-complete templates ala C++. Right? Right?

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Re:Go 1.8 Release Notes by prodigal_erik on Thursday February 16, 2017 @06:35PM (#13664632)
Feature parity with mainstream languages is a very slow-moving target. I do scoff at many languages' mediocre type systems and extensibility, but I don't feel the need to talk people out of using them.
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