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Discussion on: Why GoLang wasn't accepted by communities ?

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Jean Michel Functional Programming

A bunch of people do not get the core principle of golang : simplicity. They just think it's a langage from the 70's because there is no generics or exceptions, or polymorphism or something like this.

youtube.com/watch?v=bmZNaUcwBt4 is a perfect illustration and explains all the details.

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D\sTro

One prime reason could be, go wasn't built to target big ecosystem instead taking care of Google's automation part and hence python topped