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Re:Go and Simplicity Debt Redux by wtetzner on Sunday June 18, 2017 @11:25PM (#14584452)
> So building production software is stated as 3rd most important goal.

Nowhere in that sentence do they claim the list is ordered by importance.

> Go was designed for writing production software that needs to be reliable.

That might be true, but it doesn't actually say anything about how successful they were in reaching that goal.

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Re:Go and Simplicity Debt Redux by geodel on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:50AM (#14586479)
> but it doesn't actually say anything about how successful they were in reaching that goal.

How would measure that? To me it is simple: lots of cloud related infrastructure is written in that. So it seems successful.

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Re:Go and Simplicity Debt Redux by wtetzner on Friday June 23, 2017 @01:49PM (#14621152)
Well, all that really says is that the marketing for Go was successful, and that Go is sufficient to build said infrastructure (just as the languages preceding Go were).
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