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Re:Bandwidth needs halved by new compression written in Go by vanderZwan on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @04:28PM (#5288774)
That kind of fits Rob Pike's explanation for why Go isn't more popular with C++ programmers (although he gave it a negative spin).

In a neutral way, it's like: if you spent all that effort mastering this language to get such fine-grained control, why would you give that up again? And really, I understand: why would you give that up? Especially if you know how to use C++ in a fairly painless way.

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Re:Bandwidth needs halved by new compression written in Go by shanelja on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @04:35PM (#5288806)
Do you have a link to that? I would be interested to read it.

I also couldn't agree more, but normally, people retort with the Hammer and Screwdriver argument.

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Re:Bandwidth needs halved by new compression written in Go by mseepgood on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @05:48PM (#5289219)
http://commandcenter.blogspot.de/2012/06/less-is-exponential...
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