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by pjmlp 739 days ago
While others have, more expressive languages than Go, that compiled blazingly fast in 1990's hardware, with more features than Go will ever get.
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throwaway894345 738 days ago
I've never understood why people think "more features" is a flex. "Faster compile times" isn't even the primary benefit of fewer features, it's just gravy. More features, even with fast compile times, is a failure (which is probably why most of those "more expressive languages" are no longer with us unless one includes the JIT languages and--disingenuously--only measure the AOT compilation).

EDIT: wow, a downvote within literally 2 seconds of posting!

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pjmlp 737 days ago
Those languages are definitely with us,

https://dlang.org/

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi

https://www.mikroe.com/mikropascal-arm

https://www.eiffel.com/

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/objectada

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throwaway894345 737 days ago
Do those languages command even a single percentage of marketshare combined?
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