But then: I’m confident that a C++ translation of the new Go code would be less than half the LOC of the Go version and more type-safe, due to C++’s polymorphi

But then: I’m confident that a C++ translation of the new Go code would be less than half the LOC of the Go version and more type-safe, due to C++’s polymorphic functions and types. A Haskell rewrite would need even fewer LOC, and if I’d been allowed to write it in Clojure I suspect the whole thing could have been expressed in fewer than 1000 lines of macros