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> It's almost like you don't realize that Java came out a decade before Go

This might be a more compelling argument if Go didn't ignore (more than) the last decade of PL research.



Research, sure, but it doesn't ignore the last decade of practical experience writing programs. A programming language is a user interface. The theory isn't all that matters.


And yet I'm writing tons of code in it very quickly. I don't know how it missed HN, but Go also now powers Google's download infrastructure (Chrome, etc)


another case in point: http://www.txt.io/t-2kv5h

I feel like people don't bother to read about Go before trashing it for things that Go has never, ever claimed to be.




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