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Re:New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors by Smaug123 on Sunday December 11, 2022 @09:36AM (#33943560)
… is it? For example, the Stack Overflow survey says Rust was loved by 86% of its users, while Go by 64%. Rust also beat Go on the percentage of respondents who wanted to use it. (But Golang was used by 2% more respondents than Rust, at 11.15% vs 9.32%.)

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-loved-dre...

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Re:New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors by morelisp on Sunday December 11, 2022 @11:54AM (#33944855)
Describing that as "2% more" instead of "20% more" is a bit misleading when comparing just two items.
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Re:New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors by Smaug123 on Sunday December 11, 2022 @11:58AM (#33944896)
Sorry, I intended to say "2% more of the respondents". That was what I had in my mind when I wrote it. (In general, my opinion is that Relative Statistics Considered Harmful, they're like absolute statistics but with all the context removed, and I never intend to give them.)
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