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Go Is a Well-Designed Language

Why not liking something is not the same as badly designed.

I was thirteen and had just scored my first goal in a competitive football match - a lovely one-two with the winger finished by a powerful strike into the top left corner. Notwithstanding this quote, we get a pretty reasonable design goal: the language should make writing and maintaining large, concurrent server code easy; even across thousands of developers of differing skill levels. The lack of bells and whistles forces me to just write the damn code rather than building abstractions that don't hold their weight.

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