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		cygx on Sept 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I think Rust is the "language of the future" f... Except these big new ideas have been around for decades, some of them for nearly half a century. You're right that Go is not conservative, though, but retro, trying to mitigate the damage done by C and C++.

cmccabe on Sept 27, 2012 [–]

The ideas of Go are new to the mainstream, and at the end of the day, that's what matters. It's a programming language, not a PhD thesis.

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