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> and started learning Go. Which does exactly what it says it does, with no magic

Too little abstraction is just as bad as too much.

The amount of abstraction available in Go is just about right. It gives you higher level constructs, while still being reasonably straightforward to predict memory and CPU performance and behavior.

Assembly is too little abstraction. Go is not.

It is. Oh, and also, Go managed to screw up even the assembly, inventing portable but actually not dialect that uses ugly bits of AT&T syntax, custom operator precedence and in practice is non-portable, forcing you to mix Go-only mnemonics (which might even collide with opcode names on certain platforms), supported opcodes of target platform, and BYTE literals for opcodes it doesn't support, making a lot of your preliminary (N)ASM knowledge useless. Isn't that magnificent?

Gee, I wonder if there's a better way to do so that is not such a lazy job. But doing it properly, like .NET does, is supposedly too much effort!

It would be great if C# could be discussed as a language on its merits, but Microsoft has been a terrible steward. It's too bad.

So you are saying it's even worse than suing anyone over using the language like a certain Java-related company or laying off people off the core language team like a certain Dart-related company?

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