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Comment by nasretdinov

20 days ago

Yeah I was a bit surprised by this too. I think the post was written around 10 years ago, when it still was a genuine problem in Go.

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quotemstr  20 days ago

Good eye. This is why HN titles have year tags. :-)

Yeah, this is from 2016. I don't think choosing C over C++ was defensible even back then, but the critique of Go makes more sense now.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160109171250/http://jonathanwh...

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