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0xFACEFEED on Feb 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Zen of Go

There's a huge discussion here, if you're interested: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19814

TBH I thought adding enums was a cut and dried case until reading through some opposing opinions. Now I'm not so sure.

stouset on Feb 24, 2020 [–]

In other words, go has somehow managed to shoehorn themselves into a language so rigid that adding pretty basic correctness features comes with serious downsides.

This is not a selling point for the language.

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