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It's golang, it has a long and proud tradition of being footguns all the way down.

• kaba0 3y ago
  It’s the C tradition, continued.
  • pjmlp 3y ago
    C versus the systems languages since 1958 (JOVIAL, NEWP, ALGOL, PL/I...), Go versus the languages since Fortran until 2009.
  • randomdata 3y ago
    Go would have undoubtedly been called D had the name not already been taken.
    • omeid2 3y ago
      It is not like Go wasn't already taken. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9
• John23832 3y ago
  To reiterate, absolutely.