Go 1.17 Release Notes

Re:Go 1.17 Release Notes by int_19h on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @04:33PM (#28214524)

Well, there were good reasons to change the way py2 worked with Unicode, and I don't think this could have been made right without severe breakage either way. The only thing that should have happened sooner is support for u"" literals.

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Re:Go 1.17 Release Notes by slownews45 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @06:00PM (#28215357)

I had developed with unicode in mind using u"".

For some reason this was not good enough for the python 3 folks - they actively broke this code which was from folks who had SPECIFICALLy addressed unicode in their apps.

And yes, they could have supported u"" (and a number of other things).

They went - unicode is so critical we will break the world, and then for folks who had already supported unicode well or wanted to dual target a library they said your u"" approach to unicode is so bad we will break it.

Total BS in my book.

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