Because "programs don't need more than one type of dictionary, so the language c...

pcwalton on June 13, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Go is doomed to succeed

Because "programs don't need more than one type of dictionary, so the language can just hard code one implementation in" is at least a defensible position in a single-threaded setting (although I don't agree with it), but it definitely isn't in a scalable parallel setting.

justthistime_ on June 13, 2015 [–]

Yeah. Go. The concurrent language with a single, mutable, thread-unsafe dictionary implementation.