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Re:Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy by ninkendo on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @08:49AM (#38445639)
> not repeating Tony Hoare's billion dollar mistake yet again

This is the killer for me. After using Swift for a while, I no longer have the tolerance for languages that don’t have proper option types (and perhaps more importantly, which don’t use option types pervasively and by-default.) It’s just 100% the wrong way to design a language nowadays. Option types are table stakes.

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Re:Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy by bunderbunder on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @11:15AM (#38447333)
It doesn't even have to be ML-style option types. Kotlin is a great example of an alternative implementation that arguably has much better ergonomics for procedural and object-oriented code.
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