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pjmlp ◴[22 Aug 25 12:12 UTC] No.44983556[source]▶

As usual, lets revisit something that Pascal could do in 1976,

    type

    StatusCodes = (Success, Ongoing, Done)

Go in 2025,

    type StatusCodes int

    const (
        Success StatusCodes = iota
        Ongoing
        Done
    )

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813ac4312b25c[dead post] ◴[22 Aug 25 12:20 UTC] No.44983614[source]▶

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1. chiffaa ◴[22 Aug 25 16:21 UTC] No.44986434[source]▶

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People want sum types because sum types solve a large set of design problems, while being a concept old enough to appear back in SML in 1980s. One of the best phrased complaints I've seen against Go's design is a claim that Go language team ignored 30+ years of programming language design, because the language really seems to introduce design issues and footguns that were solved decades before work on it even started

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Go is still not good