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by rowanG077 1614 days ago
Go is the poster boy for a language NOT learning anything from decades of PL theory and research.
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In my mind, Go is an attempt at keeping the nice things about Java while discarding the worse things.
Then they have a very strange definition of nice things, when it includes worse error-handling, more verbosity and bad abstractibility.