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by financltravsty 951 days ago
We’ve found that something like 50k+ LoC Go projects become impossible to maintain.

“Optimising your notation to not confuse people in the first 10 minutes of seeing it but to hinder readability ever after is a really bad mistake.” — David MacIver

Go is a simple language that anyone can pick up in a weekend, but productivity plateaus once you’re doing anything that requires hard constraints or complex systems (the same is true for JS, Python, and other scripting languages).