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1. saxnot (saxnot@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Mar-2022 13:08:29 UTC saxnot

   • muesli

   @fribbledom oh god this voting gets harder every time...

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Mar-2022 13:08:28 UTC muesli

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     @saxnot

     It's only getting tougher! 😄

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Mar-2022 11:02:16 UTC muesli

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     • Urusan

     @saxnot @urusan

     I do? It's a pretty amazing language 😉

   • saxnot (saxnot@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Mar-2022 11:02:19 UTC saxnot

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     • muesli
     • Urusan

     @urusan @fribbledom who the flip likes Go?

     Are talking about the Google easy-to-write easy-to-learn language?

   • Urusan (urusan@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Mar-2022 11:02:21 UTC Urusan

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     • muesli

     @saxnot @fribbledom Unlikely, Julia lost to Go and now Python already.

     I'd say the most likely final matchup is either Python vs C or Python vs Rust.

     Go might also be a contender.

   • saxnot (saxnot@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Mar-2022 11:02:23 UTC saxnot

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom java was eliminated in the very beginning...

     Can't await the Julia versus Go final... xD

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Mar-2022 13:09:41 UTC muesli

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     • Urusan

     @mdhughes @urusan @saxnot

     Designing a language enabling 95% of the developers out there to build good software sounds like a sound goal. How does that compare to a prison?

   • Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃 (mdhughes@appdot.net)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Mar-2022 13:09:43 UTC Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃

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     • muesli
     • Urusan

     @urusan @saxnot @fribbledom Go was literally designed as a prison:
     The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.—Rob Pike
     http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/From-Parallel-to-Concurrent

   • Urusan (urusan@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Mar-2022 13:09:44 UTC Urusan

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     • muesli

     @saxnot @fribbledom While I haven't used Go myself, they certainly have the right philosophy behind the language. Instead of breaking new ground, they're perfecting what we already have.

     I also use several very high quality pieces of software written in Go (Gitea, Hugo, etc.), which probably wouldn't exist otherwise.