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> Go has the advantage of mediocrity. This is true in many aspects. Go shares many common feelings with other popular languages. However, there are also somet

by tapirl 6y ago

> Go has the advantage of mediocrity. This is true in many aspects. Go shares many common feelings with other popular languages. However, there are also something in Go those are not mediocrity. Being an almost static language but also as flexible as (sometimes even more flexible than) many dynamic languages is one of those not-mediocrity things in Go.

pjmlp 6y ago
This is a feature of most static language with reflection support, already available in the 80's.
- tapirl 6y ago
  Reflection contributes only very little to flexibility.
  - pjmlp 6y ago
    So what else is left? Rediscovering protocol oriented programming like Objective-C in 1986, Interlisp-D in 1983, CLU in 1975 and Standard ML in 1997?