Go is still not good
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A detailed critique of Go programming language highlighting fundamental design flaws including forced variable scoping issues, confusing nil semantics, poor portability through build tags, undefined ownership in append operations, inadequate resource management with defer, exception handling inconsistencies in the standard library, UTF-8 string handling problems, and memory management issues. The author argues these problems were avoidable as better solutions existed when Go was designed.
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Error variable scope is forced to be wrongTwo types of nilIt’s not portableappend with no defined ownershipdefer is dumbThe standard library swallows exceptions, so all hope is lostSometimes things aren’t UTF-8Memory useIt didn’t have to be this wayOther people’s posts18 Comments
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