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498 points azhenley | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 02:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source

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ronnier ◴[31 Oct 25 03:04 UTC] No.45767895[source]▶

Immutability was gaining huge traction with Java... then large parts of the industry switched to golang and we hardly make anything immutable.

1. XorNot ◴[31 Oct 25 07:40 UTC] No.45769298[source]▶

Go desperately needs support for immutable structs that copy cleanly.

I want to be able to write `x := y` and be sure I don't have mutable slices and pointer types being copied unsafely.

John Carmack on mutable variables