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Why Golang Is Bad for Smart Programmers

In recent months I use Go for the implementation of Proof of Concept in my leisure time, partly to study of Go programming language itself. Such “Hello World!” programs themselves are elementary and not the purpose of this article, but the experience of using Go itself deserves a few words about it.

Go promises to be the mainstream language for scalable severe code. The language was created by Google, in which it is actively used. To sum up, I honestly think that the design of Go is bad for smart programmers.

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https://raevskymichail.medium.com/why-golang-bad-for-smart-programmers-4535fce4210c

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