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90 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 19:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rtpg ◴[05 Sep 25 00:13 UTC] No.45133685[source]▶
I have this theory that Go tickles people because like Basic or something like Action it has all of these sort of abstraction ceilings that lead to "straight down the middle" procedural code.

Definitely leads to a feeling of velocity. I don't like the language that much but I do get the fun from that feeling!

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1. jdndnfbdn ◴[05 Sep 25 06:15 UTC] No.45135473[source]▶
I personally do not get the feeling of velocity since I need to struggle with language and tooling to get the most basic things done

However I love the ease of cross compiling and distributing cross compiled binaries that much that Go is still the best tool for some jobs