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		zeroc8 on July 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go is boring, and that’s fantastic The thing it nails is that mediocre programmers (like me) can easily understand and reason about source code written by others. In the C++ world, this can be very hard and thus time consuming. Go on the other hand let's me focus on the business value as opposed to becoming a language lawyer.

bfrog on July 3, 2020 [–]

True until the code blows up to extraordinary sizes because of lack of expressive features.

Rust code is incredibly easy to understand. Far, far easier than C++ in my opinion.

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