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by bb88 1066 days ago
Having coded in go professionally, I disagree. Go abstractions leak in weird and unexpected ways that are surprisingly different to it's C/C++/Java predecessors.

Goroutines were kind of the raison detre' for using go. But using them wasn't simple, and instead often goroutines brought their own issues. See here:

https://songlh.github.io/paper/go-study.pdf

Often a programming language takes a first guess at the problems they want to solve, and often get them wrong. C++ is probably the most notable language in this category here.

That said, I do appreciate an attempt to improve programming languages even if it undermines the primary feature of the language itself.