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dnautics on July 2, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go is boring, and that’s fantastic

I suspect the reason is that Proprietary for too long. Why use pascal by shelling out $500 to Borland when you could use c for free?

user5994461 on July 2, 2020 [–]

And you could shell out $500 to visual studio and the C++ MFC or the borderland C++ components if you wanted to do some fancy stuff like in delphi.

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