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by masklinn 3737 days ago
> I think Golang will ultimately be a very important stepping stone in language development in terms of concurrency, type systems

"stepping stone" usually implies progress and Golang was a regression on both fronts, and while its deployment story is ok that's in no small part because it just opts to statically link everything by default, which the field has been going back and forth on basically since the beginning.