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Re:The ecosystem of the Go programming language by nerdponx on Monday March 22, 2021 @11:32AM (#26542257)
They are all similar enough that a programmer fluent in one can start writing code in the style they are familiar with in another ... with the aforementioned set of languages, you can write one of them in another and it doesn't even look wrong.

1. Only superficially, because they all share the same basic flow-control constructs and (except for Python) the same C-inspired syntax. They all have totally different standard libraries, package ecosystems, etc.

2. I don't see what makes Go exempt, other than "wow great they didn't add generics bless the Go core team."

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Re:The ecosystem of the Go programming language by cratermoon on Monday March 22, 2021 @01:02PM (#26543504)
Go was built as a language to make communicating sequential processes[1] first-class citizens. Thus the ubiquity of channels and goroutines. No locks, no condition variables, no callbacks[2]. Writing a bunch of code using locks and callbacks in Go goes against the grain of the language.

[1]https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Hoare78.pdf

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kdp27TYZs

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