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Re:The Value in Go’s Simplicity by edflsafoiewq on Saturday November 16, 2019 @09:09AM (#21552690)
The simplicity of Go isn't in a syntactic minimalism. It's in the self-conscious restraining of abstractive power (eg. the article's example of the only generic data structures being slices and maps).
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Re:The Value in Go’s Simplicity by ken on Saturday November 16, 2019 @09:30AM (#21552790)
We already have a term for that: “low level”.

I assume that people are trying to attach it to the term “simple” because that word has a much more positive connotation, but the meaning isn’t the same.

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Re:The Value in Go’s Simplicity by saagarjha on Saturday November 16, 2019 @10:12AM (#21552992)
“Low level” often means “close to the metal”, though.
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