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If that's an accurate summary (I am not commenting on that fact), it's a completely clickbaity summary. Because it applies equally to why everyone hates every e

• bryanlarsen 11y ago
  For a one line summary, it's pretty accurate, but it's also a great illustration of why basing opinions on one line summaries is often a bad idea. The difference between Go and pretty much every other semi-popular language is that Go is very much defined by what it isn't rather than by what it is. In that way, its success is an implicit criticism of other languages much more than the success of any other language would be.
  • stcredzero 11y ago
    What's worse, is that it's a criticism backed up by empirical data. But programmers are unique and lucky, in that they get to be illogical and dogmatic while getting to appear rational and technological.