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Re:Nil in Go is typed in theory and sort of untyped in practice by catlifeonmars on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:27PM (#26655613)
Eh, parsimony is nice to have, but at the end of the day, programming language design is just plain old engineering and engineers make tradeoffs to ship functional code that isn’t too terrible.
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