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points by nonethewiser 3 days ago | 0 comments
Go is an incomplete language masquerading as a simple one.
[–] throwaway894345 3 days ago
Meanwhile people are happily shipping widely used software in Go :shrug:
[–] pjmlp 3 days ago
Back in the day we shipped software in ZX Spectrum and C64 BASIC, among other variants as well.

Wordpress powered by PHP is also the most widely deployed CMS.

That argument is not as great as you think it is.

[–] throwaway894345 3 days ago
Sounds like those technologies were pretty great for their day if they motivated a bunch of people to use them over boondoggle alternatives :shrug:

> That argument is not as great as you think it is.

But at least it is an argument in contrast to the comment I was replying to.