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by throwawaygo 2196 days ago
The go team's attempt at involving everyone in the priorities of the language has meant they lost focus on the wisdom of the original design. I spent 10 years writing go and I'm now expecting to have to maintain garbage go2 code as punishment for my experience. I wish they focused on making the language better at what it does, instead of making it look like other languages.
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That said the go team is incredibly talented and deserve a lot of kudos for moving much of the web programming discussion into a simpler understanding of concurrency and type safety. Nodejs and go came out at the same time and node is still a concurrency strategy salad.