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Ahh the failure to recognize that the great runtime and tooling is due to the language semantics.



I think the most complained-about semantics of Go have been the lack of generics, the lack of algebraic data types, nil, and the error handling. Generics are now implemented, and just about nobody considers the tooling and the runtime ruined because of them. Projects like Borgo and Oden are evidence that you can have what people like about the Go runtime and tooling combined with ADT-based error handling and restricted nil.




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