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Google Go: Fischer Price’s My First Programming Language

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Almost all the great software of the last 25 years was written in C or C++.

Yes, because until relatively recently (~5y) there was bugger all else to choose for writing complex high performance software.

A developer working in Go [...] will always be a mediocre programmer

This is just the "blub language" elitist nonsense transposed with Rust as LISP.

The takeaway from the article to which I tend to agree:

"No one will ever write great software in Go."

The ex-Googlers chose Go to make CockroachDB on top of RocksDB. Use what makes sense. Use common sense don't pay any mind to dogma.

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