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by tomburgs 574 days ago
> and most importantly, you adopted a language that happened by accident.

Is the author implying that Go was created by accident?
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gary_0 574 days ago
"Accident" is hyperbole, but IIRC Go evolved out of Google's internal high-performance HTTP server tooling, so they didn't initially set out to create a general-purpose programming language.
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