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Re:Three Months of Go, from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016) by psiclops on Sunday March 19, 2017 @07:44PM (#13910562)
I post this pretty often when the conversation of design choices behind Go comes up. [0] There is definitely a heavy C and Plan 9 influence on it.

[0] https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...

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Re:Three Months of Go, from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016) by im_down_w_otp on Sunday March 19, 2017 @08:07PM (#13910665)
I agree generally with this sentiment. It's probably the biggest reason I have such a hard time falling in love with Elixir. Because Erlang is simpler, despite them being largely interchangeable, and that simplicity is extremely appealing.
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