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by Mawr 15 days ago
Then you haven't been paying attention to the space. At all.

Every single new post-Go language, like Rust & Zig, ships with an opinionated autoformatter and a single go-to command to manage builds, packaging, etc.

And how many new languages do you see include inheritance and exceptions?

Older languages have started adapting what they can too:

- Python with `uv` and `black`

- Java with goroutine-like fibers and modern configuration-free gcs and the go-gc-like low pause times zgc

- Many languages now ship a production-ready http server, just like Go

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Go has exceptions, bad ones at that.

From type theory exceptions are effects, and result types are a form of effects.

Auto formatting has been a thing in IDEs for a decade, and doing pre-commit hooks on CVS with indent was a thing in the 1990's.

Java and .NET had http servers.

Co-routines trace back to languages like Solo Pascal.

Configuration free GC not really that great, given the rewrites into Rust.

Anyway, Oberon, Modula-3, Eiffel, .NET,....

Pauseless GC goes back to real time Java from PTC, Aonix, Aicas, and companies like Azul with their custom hardware.