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Why Go gets criticized so much

Obviously, not everyone hates Go. But there was a [quora question]( https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Go-seem-to-be-the-most-heavily- criticised-among-the-newer-programming-languages?srid=uCiY&share=1) recently about why everyone criticizes Go so much. (sorry, I don’t normally post links to Quora, but it was the…

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Racket frustrates me

2024-07-06 I’ve archived this post Looking for the post Racket frustrates me? You can read the original post on The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Why archive this post? It’s been about a year since I published this post and since realized something: I don’t have any skin in the game anymore. My workflow is now…

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Python is now Python 3

A major Python update has just been moved from the testing repositories and will be available on a mirror near you. The default "python" package is now for the 3.x series while the 2.x series has been moved to a "python2" package, with python-2.7 having been scheduled to be the last major release in the python-2.x…