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Then tell them to write all their code in Brainfuck if it's that easy.

In fact, tell them to write a brainfuck transpiler in brainfuck to transpile go lang to brainfuck to make it easier for you communicate with their native tongue directly.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16836860/how-does-the-br...

But honestly if you're a professional programmer, you should constantly be asking yourself how do I reduce complexity for others first, not myself. And that's where golang gets it wrong. Golang asks very specifically first and foremost how do they get their compiler right -- even if it comes at the potential expense of the users.

I mean golang is not brainfuck by any margin, and it is reasonable for what it tries to do. But, in my experience, if you're writing code longer than a page, golang is probably the wrong language.



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