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Re:Thank You, Guido by mcny on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @12:59PM (#21399888)
I am not a go programmer but I would love to revisit this conversation but with golang twenty years from now. Please correct me if I am wrong but I believe golang is essentially complete, right? and golang programmers like golang?
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Re:Thank You, Guido by Alupis on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:08PM (#21399984)
> Please correct me if I am wrong but I believe golang is essentially complete, right

I'm confident every programming language thought it was complete at some point... but eventually it's users demand some new "hot" feature and then you're back to releasing new versions again.

The C programming language just had a release in June 2018, C18. For a language released 47 years ago... and it's a pretty basic language compared to most other languages.

Fortran was released 62 years ago, and just released Fortran 2018 in November of 2018.

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Re:Thank You, Guido by mongol on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:08PM (#21399987)
Go is not complete. But it does not evolve by revolution as of now.
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Re:Thank You, Guido by Insanity on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:39PM (#21402409)
Complete is hard to define, no language stops evolving. But Go language is perfectly suitable for large projects, and is pretty much my Go-to nowadays. (Pun intended)
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