[BinaryIdiot]

I'm not sure what the takeaway is from this blog entry. Is it that Python 3 can do substrings easier than the other languages therefore we should use Python 3? That was what I thought it was, anyway.

Seems silly to pick a language based off this single, silly criteria otherwise why not JavaScript or probably other languages that can make the code even smaller?

console.log(mystring.substring(0, 12));

So it just seems arbitrary and weak in my opinion.

[steeleduncan]

The entire scenario seems to have been constructed to highlight the runtime panic caused by out of bounds slices in Go. Either that or the well-known and well-discussed lack of generics.