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knighthack ◴[] No.42193203[source]
What does 'small' really mean?

I would think of a language like Go as small (say, in comparison to Rust or Swift) - the language itself at least, if you discount the standard library.

I find the use of the word 'small' quite confusing.

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1. jerf ◴[] No.42194009[source]
The author appears to be defining it in terms of the effort put in to the language, basically, person-hours.

Go may be a small language by some definitions (and as my phrasing implies, perhaps not by others), but it is certainly one that has had a lot of person-hours put into it.