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> ...are a breath of fresh air... Agreed. Go lacks many things, but the "zen" of Go is wonderful feature most people aren't aware of, or under appreciate. I w

• chimeracoder 12y ago
  > Agreed. Go lacks many things, but the "zen" of Go is wonderful feature most people aren't aware of, or under appreciate. It's funny that you use the word "Zen" - about two years ago, I gave a talk about Go to the New York Python Meetup about why I switched to Go[0], and the punchline was that Go fits the Zen of Python[1] better than Python does[2]. [0] Before anyone gets upset - they asked me to speak, and they were genuinely happy with the presentation. It's not like I went in there to troll with a talk on "This is why your language sucks"! [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ [2] If anyone's interested, these were the slides: https://s3.amazonaws.com/golangweekly/go_for_pythonistas.pdf https://s3.amazonaws.com/golangweekly/go_for_pythonistas.pdf