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Re:Go 1.18 by alex_sf on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @12:46AM (#30695424)
That was one of the goals and virtues of Go imo; the language was nerfed. It made the hard things easy, and prevented the really hard things from being implemented in silly ways.
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Re:Go 1.18 by closeparen on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @04:50AM (#30696617)
It guarantees that when people do things in silly ways, their silliness is splayed across so many characters and lines that you'll never have the time to change an appreciable portion of them.
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