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Disclaimer: prepare for hair-splitting and nitpicking
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Disclaimer: prepare for hair-splitting and nitpicking
I’ve been using Go for a few years now, mostly in my open source project Lazygit. In my day job I use Ruby and Typescript, and I’ve also spent some time with Rust. Each of those languages have design quirks that can grind a developer’s gears, and although my own precious gears have been ground by every language I’ve…