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Re:Golang: Know Your 'Nil' by donio on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @01:08PM (#26637265)
Relative lack of syntactic sugar is one of Go's best features though.
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Re:Golang: Know Your 'Nil' by jzoch on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @01:12PM (#26637330)
I dont think thats true at all. Even the sugar they have is strange: see `go` and `make`. Go has plenty of good features and "lack of ergonomic faculties for common programming idioms in Go" is not one of them.
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Re:Golang: Know Your 'Nil' by morelisp on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @01:13PM (#26649989)
`new` is basically syntactic sugar (and I personally rarely use it), but `make` is the only way to dynamically allocate or to pre-allocate slices and maps.
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