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0 pointsbheadmaster3y ago0 comments

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

- the guy who created C++

I always bring up Go in such arguments - according to the survey [0] done by the Go team, 93% of Go users are satisfied with the language.

[0] https://go.dev/blog/survey2022-q2-results

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d0mine3y ago· 1 in thread

When if ever Go becomes as widespread as either C++ or Python, then we talk

bheadmasterOP3y ago

C++ being horrible has less to do with its widespreadedness and more with the committee-driven design and being intentionally designed as a C derivative in order to gain maximum backwards compatibility.

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