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Re:Practical Go: Real-world advice for writing maintainable ... by jstewartmobile on Thursday February 21, 2019 @04:08PM (#19220593)
That sounds like a stronger defense of types than Go's documentation.
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Re:Practical Go: Real-world advice for writing maintainable ... by weberc2 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @05:37PM (#19221216)
It largely is. Formalized types allow a documentation tool to do a lot of heavy lifting. But Go's documentation system is still quite a lot nicer than javadoc, doxygen, etc. for other statically typed languages.
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