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Re:Half a million lines of Go on Sunday May 16, 2021 @06:02PM (#27177426)
This has been my experience. I love the fact that the standard library itself is written in Go, so it's easy to see what exactly is going on and even learn some idioms that way. It's refreshing for me personally as I had a JavaScript background before learning Go
I think many are too quick to crucify the guy after reading a few quotes. I mean, I can see how some of those comments may be construed as misogynistic, but I would need to read the whole book to understand the context, and I'll definitely not pass judgement before doing that.