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Re:Experience Report: 6 months of Go by twblalock on Saturday April 30, 2022 @05:15PM (#31219438)
> I like the idea of a simple language, but not the choices they made.

That’s the problem with simplicity, and it’s why kitchen-sink languages like Java will always be popular.

People complain about the complexity of Microsoft Office too — they only use a subset of the features. Why does it need to be so complicated? Because every customer uses a different subset of the features, and what you end up with is the combined superset of what everyone wants.

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Re:Experience Report: 6 months of Go by chakkepolja on Sunday May 01, 2022 @02:28AM (#31222713)
> That’s the problem with simplicity, and it’s why kitchen-sink languages like Java will always be popular.

Java is not kitchen sink. Scala is.

And Go is quite popular than Scala or Rust, which would count as more kitchen sink.

I believe what matters is immediate applicability for some purpose, which oftwn means some amount of 'kitchen sink'.

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