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Re:Using Rust at a Startup: A Cautionary Tale by satvikpendem on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:42PM (#33714497)
Sure, I did not mean Go specifically when I said that, just stating how when I used linters in other such languages, it was not comprehensive enough to replace a language with types and other niceties built-in.

I also don't use much Go because it lacks good algebraic data type support, honestly can't imagine going back to a language that doesn't have them as I like to define all my business logic in types and then build the actual application from there. Go simply doesn't have that capability.

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Re:Using Rust at a Startup: A Cautionary Tale by Zagill on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:55PM (#33714585)
I'm not familiar with algebraic data types, what's missing from Go that makes that impossible? Sounds about like defining structs/other custom types before writing any method bodies, which is what I'd typically do in a Go project.
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Re:Using Rust at a Startup: A Cautionary Tale by satvikpendem on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:59PM (#33714607)
> what's missing from Go that makes that impossible?

The language maintainers don't want to add it: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19412

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