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Re:Why I love Go by xenoncross on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @10:33PM (#15858248)
There are real problems, and not real problems. I'd classify this as a not real problem. How hard is it to name errors differently when it would be a real problem? A few keystrokes.. and BOOM! Problem solved.

I wonder what is the correlation between volume of complaining about minutia such as this compared to real life ability and level of accomplishment.

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Re:Why I love Go by lobster_johnson on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @11:11PM (#15858410)
When you work with Go every day (which I've done for last two years or so), small problems become significant annoyances.

It's a decent language, but it's also a deeply flawed one. I could mention many other, bigger flaws, but this particular discussion was about errors.

Also, it's actually okay to debate minutia. Dismissing something as "not real problems" is, well, dismissive.

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Re:Why I love Go by Xeoncross on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:53AM (#15862009)
What in the world? xenoncross?
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