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Re:Context should go away for Go 2 by bvrmn on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @06:53PM (#42786808)
> As a newcomer to Go, a lot of their design decisions made a lot of sense when I realized that a lot of the design is based around this idea of "make it impossible to do something that could be dumb in some contexts".

You are indeed a newcomer :) God bless you to shoot feet only in dev environments.

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Re:Context should go away for Go 2 by mroche on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @03:02AM (#42790272)
It sounds like you may have some friction-studded history with Go. Any chance you can share your experience and perspective with using the language in your workloads?
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Re:Context should go away for Go 2 by bvrmn on Thursday January 23, 2025 @06:47AM (#42803091)
It's mostly dead locked networking code. Hard to investigate, hard to search the culprit. And of course code bases without linter for err propagation and handling. And this-null for "methods".
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Re:Context should go away for Go 2 by neonsunset on Thursday January 23, 2025 @04:49PM (#42808434)
Global sync.Mutex'es everywhere :)
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