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There are many fundamental errors about Go in the article: the := operator distinguishes declare and assign from pure assignment, not assignment from equality as the author states. Pointers in Go do not make the language unsafe. Pointers in Go do not relegate automatic memory management to a "supposed" feature. Goroutines are not the same thing as threads. The lack of implicit "this" in methods does not make methods a low value add feature over static functions.

There are several more errors in the article. Read it with caution.