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Re:Why Go? Use Racket by Rapzid on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:32PM (#9193678)
Just a nit, everything is passed by value in Go including slices. Here is an example highlighting why it may be important to keep this in mind: https://play.golang.org/p/VOUJI88PNj .

Regardless of this, I learned Go during the last Stripe CTF and placed top 5 in one of the rounds with it sooo... I don't believe learning to be effective with it takes all that long. It was quite enjoyable to learn as well.

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Re:Why Go? Use Racket by jamra on Thursday March 12, 2015 @05:52PM (#9194187)
Not just a nit. You are right. I wrote my comment in haste. Had to take someone to the airport.

I think the essence of my point still stands in that the example the author provides is very shallow and hardly something that stops you from writing Go or even writing any kind of protocol in Go.

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