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tomburgs 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022)

> and most importantly, you adopted a language that happened by accident.

Is the author implying that Go was created by accident?

gary_0 6 months ago [–]

"Accident" is hyperbole, but IIRC Go evolved out of Google's internal high-performance HTTP server tooling, so they didn't initially set out to create a general-purpose programming language.

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