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Go is still not good

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1. fschuett ◴[] No.44983401[source]
Technically, the term "billion dollar mistake", coined in 1965, would now be a "10 billion dollar mistake" in 2025. Or, if the cost is measured in terms of housing, it would be a "21 billion dollar mistake".

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2. masklinn ◴[] No.44987506[source]
The billion dollar mistake was made in 1965 but the term was coined in 2009, defined as the following:

> I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.