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		coldtea on May 26, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go Is a Shop-built Jig (2014) >PHP is bad because it’s inconsistent and doesn’t really have a coherent design. Same for Go. Built-in special case generic behavior -- but only for specially blessed types, and many other things besides: https://medium.com/@tucnak/why-go-is-a-poorly-designed-langu...

tptacek on May 26, 2018 [–]

I do not think an equivalence class of "incoherent languages" that includes Go and PHP is a reasonable place to argue from.

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