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by antonvs 225 days ago
Oh? Which “lot of” other programming languages can’t you “actually get stuff done” in? Are you sure the problem lies with the programming language?
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danenania 225 days ago
It’s an exaggeration perhaps but I get the sentiment. FP is elegant and beautiful and everything, but it can lead you to spend all day puzzling out the right abstractions for some data transformation that takes 5 minutes with a dumb for loop in Go.
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LogicHound 225 days ago
I find there are some environments where you have a positive feedback loop while working in them. PHP is one of them, Go is another at least for me.

I find many of languages I am constantly fighting with dependency managers, upgrades and all sorts of other things.

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