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by beltsazar 1183 days ago
> The best part of Go is that there is very little magic in Go. If you understand that slices are just fat pointers implemented as a built-in, there is nothing confusing about them.

It's just a tautology. If you understand something, of course by definition you aren't confuse about them. By using the same logic, all languages have "very little magic."

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But the big difference is time to understand it
Offloading that pain of learning as the pain of using.