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rowanG077 on Jan 15, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The λ-Cube

Go is the poster boy for a language NOT learning anything from decades of PL theory and research.

thaumasiotes on Jan 16, 2022 [–]

In my mind, Go is an attempt at keeping the nice things about Java while discarding the worse things.

kaba0 on Jan 16, 2022 | [–]

Then they have a very strange definition of nice things, when it includes worse error-handling, more verbosity and bad abstractibility.

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