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Re:I Do Not Like Go by vonseel on Friday December 21, 2018 @05:39PM (#18737339)
Are you really arguing that the language is not “good”? Sure, there are things not to like about it, but the widespread adoption of Go as a systems programming language is evidence alone that it is a “good” language.

Good is such an ambiguous term that I’m not sure it’s even worth using. For one person, only esoteric languages like Haskell are “good”, for another person, Python or Javascript are “good” enough.

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Re:I Do Not Like Go by 62747478182 on Friday December 21, 2018 @09:13PM (#18738471)
> but the widespread adoption of Go as a systems programming language is evidence alone that it is a “good” language.

Years ago PHP was the king of web development, and it was pretty awful in many ways (today is much better, though).

People usually choice languages because of convenience, not because of how good they are.

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