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> Go, just like an abacus doesn't have generics, or, besides channels and goroutines, most other facilities modern languages offer for that matter

If you need mainly a large number of features in order to program, Go probably isn't for you. But from the perspective of a C/C++ programmer, this isn't likely to be an important point. Languages with more features than C have been available for 40 years (depends on what you'd count as a feature), so there were plenty of "better" choices in that regard available for said people.

For me, the lack of some "features" is a great asset for Go, I probably wouldn't have bothered to learn a new language if it had boasted the complexity of Rust or Haskell.



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