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by coldtea 844 days ago
>But Golang's type system never aspired to be as rigid and encompassing as C++, Haskell, Rust, etc.

Well, didn't have to aspire to all that to at least make an effort to be more helpful, especially in trivial aspects, like having an actual enumerated type, or an Optional/Error type...
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preommr 844 days ago
I don't think you understand how minimalist Golang is... the std lib only has room for anything you would ever need for a web service including a full web server, builtins like hashmaps, a bunch of things for concurrent programming like channels, go routines, etc. There's also language features like returning tuples and destructuring them which is actually more advanced than it's peers.

To include an optional type would be against go's identity.

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richbell 844 days ago
> I don't think you understand how minimalist Golang is... the std lib only has room for anything you would ever need for a web service including a full web server, builtins like hashmaps, a bunch of things for concurrent programming like channels, go routines, etc.

I can't tell if this is sarcasm.

If it isn't, I don't see how what you've mentioned is minimalistic or how adding an option type would be against Go's identity.

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