And as a result of this, you can't have a 3GB byte array in C#. I think there needs to be a big benefit to make hard-coding a restriction like that into the la

And as a result of this, you can't have a 3GB byte array in C#. I think there needs to be a big benefit to make hard-coding a restriction like that into the language worth it. Unfortunately I've read every comment in this HN thread (so far) and I haven't found any specific one mentioned, just people calling it "crazy" and "confusing" over and over. Go is a language that has explicit pointers! And of course those can be 32 or 64 bits and change struct sizes, field offsets etc. There are certainly things about Go that are confusing but I've never thought this was one of them. Just FYI Go has int8, int16, int32, int64, and int types. Only the 'int' type is the machine-native one. It's always been obvious to me that 'int' is the one without a fixed size, but I think this would be less obvious if the naming convention was different using short, int, long etc.