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by ctvo 1271 days ago
They didn't though.

It's ... familiar quibbles surrounded by noise. I'd love it if you could summarize the thoughtful constructive criticism you saw for the rest of us.

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> It's ... familiar quibbles surrounded by noise.

I found it helpful. It did confirm my priors (Go is useful for a big class of problems) and educate me a bit (uninitialised values set to zero??)

I have compiled some Go (so fast) but written zero Go. I do not like garbage collected languages, but rather a garbage collector than reference counting (I have done a lot of Swift - Why? For money - there could be no other reason)

> I'd love it if you could summarize the thoughtful constructive criticism you saw for the rest of us.

The lack of protections for using uninitialised data structures. I learnt about that from this article. Makes me nostalgic for C