"Most big Go or Lua projects end up pulling in dependencies like mergo or penlight tablex." Don't know about Lua, but in Go this is absolutely not true. I didn

"Most big Go or Lua projects end up pulling in dependencies like mergo or penlight tablex." Don't know about Lua, but in Go this is absolutely not true. I didn't even know "mergo" and it seems to have a mere 200 stars on GitHub. As the article notes, the culture in Go is to write explicit imperative code instead of hiding operations behind functional-sounding routines that have none of the functional properties.