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234 points darccio | 2 comments | 13 Oct 25 07:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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DarkNova6 ◴[22 Oct 25 10:35 UTC] No.45667140[source]▶
As somebody who only views Go from a distance, I see this list as a combination of „what‘s the big deal?“ and „please don‘t“.
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OvervCW ◴[22 Oct 25 10:43 UTC] No.45667192[source]▶
I'm amused by posts like this because it shows that Go is finally slowly moving away from being an unergonomically simplistic language (its original USP?) to adopt features a modern language should have had all along.

My experience developing in it always gave me the impression that the designers of the language looked at C and thought "all this is missing is garbage collection and then we'll have the perfect language".

I feel like a large amount of the feeling of productivity developers get from writing Go code originates from their sheer LOC output due to having to reproduce what other languages can do in just a few lines thanks to proper language & standard library features.

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0x696C6961 ◴[22 Oct 25 11:10 UTC] No.45667358[source]▶
If you think Go and C are that similar then you don't know either.
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1. quietbritishjim ◴[22 Oct 25 11:20 UTC] No.45667436{3}[source]▶
Go and C have partially shared origins. Two of the three creators of Go (Ken Thompson and Rob Pike) were involved in the early days of C. Ken Thompson is even the creator of B, the predecessor of C. There are obvious huge differences between the language but in a more subtle way they're actually quite similar: C is an "unergonomically simplistic language", just as the parent commenter describes Go.
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2. 0x696C6961 ◴[22 Oct 25 13:23 UTC] No.45668760[source]▶
Pike was not involved with the design of C. He was involved with Newsqueak and Limbo which inspired Go's concurrency model.