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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by froh on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:25PM (#23716372)
The compilers were dead slow.

Ada was ahead of c++ by years, but it was unusably slow in compile debug cycles compared to c++.

http://archive.adaic.com/intro/ada-vs-c/ada-vs-c.html

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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by KineticLensman on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:44PM (#23716561)
> The compilers were dead slow.

And also expensive.

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