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by pjmlp 4226 days ago
> However, I do think you really underestimate the compile speed of Go.

You mean like Turbo Pascal 4.0 back in MS-DOS?

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or TP-Win vs Turbo-C-Win. Pascal compilation was "don't blink, or you'll miss it" vs "go get coffee...".

Go reminds me a lot of TP with garbage collection, dressed up to look like C to avoid bruising Bell Labs egos. (OK, closures and multiple return values are pretty cool, too, as are associative arrays and array slices)