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main gripe seems to be that go will "optimize for the 90% case, ignoring correctness" -- particularly leading to issues on non-unix systems like windows.

That fits Go's stated goals afaik. While I understand the author ran into problems for their use-case, I did not find this rant compelling as a general criticism.

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Same because if you try to create the % case you end up with things like ASP. NET and entity framework. Working with those for 5 years I was constantly annoyed with how far I could add super complex features only to have to unravel them to implement a simple lower level edge case.

And in my experience this too easily reflects poorly on the devs "well I found a blog post for ef that does what we need in 30 seconds.." which just isn't the case. I migrated to golang and find its nuances much easier to swallow. No generics? True - write a generator for your use case. It's really not that hard..

I agree. I would rather keep things minimal and have 90% correctness, than a weird and complicated interface that's 99% right.

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