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What was the first thing you saw in Go that surprised you?
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What was the first thing you saw in Go that surprised you?
An assessment of 16 laptops.
I discovered a profound outcome of Go's support for static type checking and duck typing: It is ridiculously easy to refactor Go.
I hope that the true promise of functional programming for parallel computing can be widely realized.
Choose to do only the things that nobody else can do.
I shit you not – SPACEJUMP was a verb.
If you're a fan of dynamic languages then you should also be a fan of functional programming.