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by arsv 4142 days ago
> After doing your research, you're welcome to submit a magical CL and PR that brings down the binary sizes, then you won't need to argue anymore.

The original link is titled "The State of Go". The first thing I want to know about a state of a new language is whether it works. Then how well it works. Then, maybe, how to fix it and which VCS to use. There is an issue I think is within the range of these two questions, but it is not even mentioned there.

So to make life a bit easier for people who like me expect that issue to be discussed first, I posted a comment summarizing (in my opinion) the state of Go.

My thoughts on how to fix it are hardly relevant to the current state of Go.

> It doesn't print just strings. It can print anything.

The fact it is just a string should be statically (build-time) inferable in a strongly-typed language. Reflection, at least as I understand it, implies run-time type information. So the question does make sense. Yes, I understand why it may be needed for a particular implementation of printf, this is why I called it a lesser issue.

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> I posted a comment summarizing (in my opinion) the state of Go.

Not trying to be rude, but your uninformed opinion is less valuable than you think.

Wow, Googlers being Googlers.