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Because the middle east was a sea of peace, social stability and contentment beforehand? The Iraq war was a disaster, but let's not kid ourselves about a simplistic root cause.

A reliable runtime is listed in the three main benefits of using Go. Are the runtimes for the alternatives really any less reliable?

I can buy that the language is easy to learn since the feature set is very limited, but is productivity in the first week/month really what to optimise for?

They also list performance as a benefit.

Go is a reasonable choice, but I doubt that the result would have been much different if they'd used any other modern statically typed language such as Rust, Scala, D, or even Nim.

Client code relying on the fact that your class implements that interface when it wasn't intentional and might change perhaps?

Psyduck... Psyduck... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyduck

It might be a reference to debugging Spring autowire.

Forced? Facebook still is creepy and so are web analytics. Why do you think so many people have resorted to ad blockers? I find it amusing that LinkedIn was picked as a platform to claim the non-creepiness of something.

My comment was more about Go posts on HN being upvoted like crazy whenever they appear rather than any specific issue with your post. It's like a magic recipe for upvotes around here.

It includes the magic upvote string in the title: "Go". The content is irrelevant, as long as it's positive.

It would be fun to see the BSOD in my browser just for nostalgia.