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A comment on Why I Don't Like Golang (2016). Parent comment

Re:Why I Don't Like Golang (2016) by zemo on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:35PM (#20171604)
> a single line change (e.g. changing private to public) needs an IDE to refactor it

the language comes with a rewriting tool that rewrites arbitrary expressions.

gofmt -w -r 'thing -> Thing' *.go

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Re:Why I Don't Like Golang (2016) by apta on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:45PM (#20171640)
Still more and unnecessary effort compared to changing one word.
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