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by kaba0 1267 days ago
How can you honestly claim that the language is consistent when it didn’t use to be able to express a map without supporting it on a language level (instead of only being a lib)? A properly consistent language would be one where you could reasonably come up with how to use anything, including such a basic data type just from simple primitives. Go is very far from that.

Have a look at the excellent “Growing a language” talk by Guy Steele where he goes into great detail on what would a truly consistent language entail.
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majewsky 1267 days ago
"Being able to solve every programming problem" is not a necessary prerequisite for consistency. If that were true, SQL would be inconsistent because it cannot interface with libgl in order to render 3D graphics. That is clearly nonsense.
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kaba0 1267 days ago
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