[klabb3]

As someone who likes Go, agreed 100%.

Sum types + pattern matching + tuples alone are so powerful, they could fix like top 5 of my biggest annoyances with Go.

Add some syntax sugar (like '?' from Rust), and it fixes a majority of the boilerplate issues.

Imo, people praise Rust too much for the ownership and safety story, and way to little for its (more simplistic) excellent decisions around simple types.

[baq]

A bit of a tangent here but a similar thing happened with Python 2->3: people focus on Unicode (especially native English speakers) and completely forget that exceptions were made unbroken.

[masklinn]

I can’t think of anything which was broken exceptions-wise in p2, and was unbroken in p3. Are you talking about the addition of exception chaining?

[baq]

That, string exceptions, raise from, etc.