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(Comparing a function in Rust's sdtlib to Go's:) > Of course there's a learning curve. Of course there's more concepts involved than just throwing for loops at byte slices and seeing what sticks, like the Go library does. > But the result is a high-performance, reliable and type-safe library. > It's worth it.

When I first saw Go, I was blown away. Not by its features, but rather the lack thereof. It seemed like one last "Hail Mary!" from the C programming community to get "back to basics". But, as the author showcases, the time when programming was about manipulating arrays with pointers is, if not behind us, hopefully on its way out.