[preseinger]

calling articles about language features and/or their implementations a "smell" is some pretty insane stuff

the slice behavior you demonstrate there is well-defined by the language spec, it's totally memory safe, it doesn't demonstrate memory corruption or anything like that

go is probably the most successful new language since java, if you don't like it that's fine, but it's nonsensical to call its design decisions "wrong"

[iainmerrick]

I’m pretty sure the most successful language since Java is JavaScript.

Of course it has even more bad design decisions than Go, but people don’t leap out to defend them quite so much.