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red_admiraltoday at 8:45 AM1 replyview on HN

Golang was supposed to be boring by design (https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article) and you can use it in a boring way. Even learning golang is relatively boring.


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Cthulhu_today at 10:21 AM

Go the language and Go the ecosystem seem to be the antithesis of languages like Scala that seems to be a form of self-gratification when used to solve boring problems like HTTP APIs, or ecosystems like Javascript's where all the tools are rewritten into something faster and better in recent years.