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Re:Three Months of Go from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016) by LandR on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @03:58AM (#24987430)
> Go is incredibly readable I find.

I'm the opposite, I don't find it readable at all.

I find Go too verbose to be readable.

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Re:Three Months of Go from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016) by kevincox on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @10:04AM (#24989638)
Exactly this. I find that each line of go is readable. However actually trying to figure out what the code is trying to accomplish becomes a chore because I can't keep all of the lines in my head.

Maybe it is because what I am used to but I find I am often "pattern matching" loops into `map`s `filter`s and similar in my head. Of course doing this, and making sure that I didn't miss a side effect or condition that makes it not-quite-a-map takes a lot more brainpower than just seeing `slice.map(|path| path.basename())`.

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